News
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
Ontario Plans 40-MW Solar Project
LCG, April 28, 2007--The Ontario Ministry of Energy announced yesterday that it has committed to a solar project with a capacity of 40 MW through its Renewable Standard Offer Program. The project is scheduled to be completed by 2010. Since February, thirty six renewable energy projects, with a combined electric generating capacity of 250 MW, have been awarded through the Standard Offer Program.
The solar project will be installed in Sarnia by OptiSolar Farms. The project will consist of four solar farms and include over one million ground-mounted solar panels designed to convert solar energy into electricity.
The Ontario Ministry of Energy also announced that other renewable energy projects were awarded contracts through the Standard Offer Program, including: two residential-sized solar photovoltaic installations, several 10-MW wind farms and two waterpower projects with First Nations participation. All of the contracted projects are scheduled to be in service by 2010.
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