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Minnesota PUC Approves Operations Extension for Xcel Energy's Prairie Island Nuclear Plant

LCG, August 15, 2025--Xcel Energy announced that the company received state approval yesterday from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to extend operations of the Prairie Island nuclear plant through the early 2050s. Prairie Island has two units that have a combined generating capacity of 1,100 MW. The units’ current operating licenses expire in 2033 and 2034.

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PGE Announces Addition of 475 MW of Battery Energy Storage Systems to Improve Grid Reliability and Costs

LCG, August 7, 2025--Portland General Electric (PGE) today announced the completion of three, four-hour lithium-ion utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Oregon, adding 475 MW and more than 1.9 GWh of dispatchable capacity to serve the Portland metro area. Each of these BESS facilities can deliver power during peak demand or when other electric generating facilities are limited, which improves system flexibility, reliability and costs.

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Wisconsin Plant Planned at Lake Michigan Site

LCG, May 2, 2002--We Power LLC, a subsidiary of Wisconsin Energy Corp., has contracted with Washington Group International for the construction of a 500-megawatt, combined-cycle power plant at an existing site on Lake Michigan.

Engineering work will commence while applications are made with Public Service Commission of Wisconsin. The configuration of the plant, at Port Washington, will include two combustion turbines, two heat recovery steam generators, and a steam turbine. There is an existing Port Washington power plant at the site, and We Power has plans to build a second combined-cycle plant there at at an unspecified date.

We Power was started one year ago as the unregulated power development unit of Wisconsin Energy, and presently has an overall goal of building 2,800 megawatts of new generation capacity throughout Wisconsin within the decade.
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