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Data Center Customer Adds 620 MW Order for INNIO's J624 Gas Engines

LCG, October 23, 2026--INNIO N.V. yesterday announced a 620 MW follow-on order from a developer and operator of mega-scale data center campuses in the United States. Together with the customer's 1.1 GW order announced previously in July, the new order brings cumulative orders from the customer to approximately 1.72 GW this year.

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The Nuclear Company Announces a 6.6 GW Nuclear Project to Commence Construction by 2030 in Kentucky

LCG, October 21, 2026--The Nuclear Company today announced a proposed nuclear energy campus in Kentucky that could potentially provide 6.6 GW of electric generating capacity. The Prosperity One nuclear energy campus, located along the Ohio River in eastern Kentucky, could accommodate up to six Westinghouse AP1000 reactors and would be the largest nuclear power generation site in the nation if fully constructed.

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FERC Spells Out Rules for For-Profit Grid Companies

LCG, Apr. 25, 2002--The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday issued further details on the abilities and obligations of for-profit independent transmission companies, or ITC's, with specific directions for the Alliance, a group of utilities that had hoped to form a for-profit regional transmission organization (RTO).

In the fall of 2001, the FERC had denied the Alliance companies, located in the Midwest, their objective of qualifying for RTO status. The FERC upheld that decision, intended to prevent grid management from granting transmission access favoring the utilities' own transactions, as occurred during the pre-1996 era of vertical integration.

The Alliance, which includes American Electric Power Co. (AEP), Exelon Corp., Commonwealth Edison Co., FirstEnergy Corp., Ameren, DPL Inc., Dynegy's Illinois Power Co., and Dominion Resources, was given 30 days in which to commit to joining either the Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland Interconnection (PJM) or the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO). There have been initial agreements between the PJM and MISO, both of which have filed RTO compliance reports on their own, on forming a unified market.

In a separate order, the nascent independent transmission company TRANSLink Transmission Co. LLP, started by Alliant Energy, Xcel Energy and Berkshire Hathaway, as well as public utilities Nebraska Public Power District, Omaha Public Power District and Corn Belt Power Cooperative, was told to post available transmission capacity on the MISO's website, rather than its own. The order would promote "one-stop shopping," according to FERC Chairman Pat Wood III.

Democrat william Massey, who supports nonprofit RTO's over for-profit RTO's said that ITC's, if allowed by FERC, can "properly harness the profit incentive" to realize a non-discriminatory, efficient transmission grid. Commissioner Linda Key Breathitt expressed concern that ITC's might be stifled by the FERC's support for non-profit RTO's.
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