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LCG, October 28, 2025--NextEra Energy and Google yesterday announced two agreements that will help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) with clean, reliable, 24/7 nuclear power and strengthen the nation's nuclear leadership. First, Google signed a new, 25-year agreement for power generated at the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa's only nuclear power facility. The 601-MW boiling water reactor unit was shut down in 2020 and is expected to commence operations by the first quarter of 2029, pending regulatory approvals to restart the plant.
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LCG, October 23, 2025--Google announced today a first-of-its kind agreement to support a natural gas-fired power plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS). The 400-MW Broadwing Energy power project, located in Decatur, Illinois, will capture and permanently store its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By agreeing to buy most of the power it generates, Google is helping get this new, baseload power source built and connected to the regional grid that supports our data centers.
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Industry News
AEP Cuts Back Speculative Trading
LCG, Oct. 11, 2002--Liquidity in energy trading is likely to decline further, following the announcement yesterday by American Electric Power Co. (AEP) that it will significantly reduce the resources it had devoted to speculative trading.A top trader at AEP, Rick Snowdon, departed from the company in May along with others who worked with him, citing personal reasons for leaving. This had led some at other firms to infer that AEP had incurred losses on its trading operations. The company applied to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas in September to mothball older coal-fired generators which had served the Texas market, a market which has more than adequate supplies of power.A significant amount of AEP's coal-fired generation will continue to supply the Midwest with inexpensive power. AEP's overall generation portfolio totals 42,000 megawatts. The company's earnings estimates for the current year have been cut by 11 percent, AEP chairman, chief executive and president Linn Draper said Thursday. Draper stated that the company "is painfully aware that the current market conditions won't reward the scope and scale of our trading and marketing business that we built over the last several years.A trader quoted by Reuters said, "These things make trading conditions that much more difficult. They are causing everybody to be that much more conservative in who they trade with and make it more costly to trade." Much of speculative trading involves contracts based on estimates of the future price of power.
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