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Entergy Estimates Customer Savings of $5B from "Fair Share Plus" Data Center Agreements

LCG, March 6, 2026--Entergy yesterday announced approximately $5 billion in total savings for 2.3 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi resulting from data center customer agreements in those states. Entergy, which completed its first data center customer agreement in 2024, projects the customer savings over the next 20 years and after the regulatory approval or acknowledgement of the public service commissions in those states.

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NRC Approves the Natrium® Reactor Construction Permit for TerraPower's Wyoming Nuclear Project

LCG, March 5, 2026--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced yesterday that it has authorized the staff to issue TerraPower’s subsidiary, US SFR Owner, a construction permit for the company’s Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 commercial nuclear power plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

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Ronald Bertasi, most recently with Enron Energy Services, has been named vice president for product management by The Southern Co. He will also be president and chief executive ofSouthern Company Energy Solutions.

Robert M. Flavin has joined CMS Marketing, Services and Trading, a subsidiary of CMS Energy Corp., in the new position of vice president for accounting and administration. He previously was senior vice president with Coast Energy Group, the energy marketing division of Cornerstone Propane Partners.

Lew Hay, president and chief executive of FPL Group Inc., will alsobecome the company's chairman at the end of the year when James Broadhead retires.

Kenneth Lay, chief executive of troubled energy trader Enron Corp., has voluntarily resigned from the board of directors of drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co.

Richard J. Mark has been named vice president for customer service by Ameren Corp., joining the company from Ancilla Systems Inc., where he was a senior vice president.

Don Shippar, currently executive vice president and chief operating officer of Minnesota Power Co., will become president and chief operating officer effective January 1.

Steve Smith, former director of trading arrangements with Britain's Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, will join AEP Energy Services Ltd., the London-based European wholesale marketing and trading subsidiary of American Electric Power Co. Inc., on February 1 as director of environmental and regulatory affairs for the UK and Europe.

Southern Co. Unit Makes Management Changes
Southern Company Generation and Energy Marketing, a business unit of The Southern Co. that manages and generates electricity for the company's retail markets and markets energy in the competitive wholesale supply business, has announced several management changes.

  • Doug Jones was named senior vice president for energy marketing. He will continue to have manage the company's wholesale marketing and trading business and fleet dispatch.

  • Ed Day was named vice president for business development, responsible for directing the company's expanding wholesale marketing and business development activities in the Southeast.

  • Robert Moore was named senior vice president and senior production officer for Southern Power Co., a subsidiary that manages the company's unregulated generation fleet.

  • Chris Womack was named senior vice president and senior production officer of Southern Company Generation and Energy Marketing and will be responsible for Georgia Power fleet operations.
  • Ashley Baker was named vice president for fossil and hydro engineering, procurement and construction.

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