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LCG, October 20, 2025--Holtec International announced today that the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant site in Michigan has received new nuclear fuel – 68 assemblies in total – that achieves a major milestone on the path to restarting the plant. The 800-MW facility was shutdown and decommissioned in 2022 due primarily for economic reasons; however, Holtec is progressing towards restarting the original unit by the end of this year, pending all necessary federal regulatory reviews and approvals. Achieving a successful restart of a shutdown nuclear unit will be a historic first for the nuclear industry.
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LCG, October 14, 2025--Calpine Corporation today announced the close of a Texas Energy Fund (TxEF) loan agreement to support development of the Pin Oak Creek project, a 460-MW, natural gas-fired peaking facility adjacent to Calpine's Freestone Energy Center, a gas-fired combined-cycle facility located on approximately 506 acres near Fairfield, Texas.
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Industry News
MidAmerican Begins Constructing 790 MW Advanced Coal Plant
LCG, September 9, 2003MidAmerican Energy Companyannounced that it has begun construction of thebiggest coal-fired plant in Iowa.According to the company, the plant will usesupercritical boilers to form very hot steam underhigher-than-normal pressures. This adaptation, alongwith dry scrubbers and catalyst technologies, willallow for much cleaner power production thantraditional coal-fired plants.The 790-megawatt plant will cost roughly $1.2billion and will be constructed at Council BluffsEnergy Center, which already has a generating capacityof 820 megawatts.MidAmerican Energy Company serves 681,000customers in the Midwest and is based in Des Moines,Iowa.
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