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LCG, December 18, 2025--RWE and Indiana Michigan Power Company (I&M), an American Electric Power (AEP) company, today announced their partnering to provide new wind power generation capacity online to meet Indiana’s growing electricity demand. The companies signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the total output from RWE’s 200 MW Prairie Creek wind project in Blackford County, Indiana. I&M will purchase electricity from the wind project, which will further diversify its portfolio and be consistent with its all-of-the-above strategy to secure generation for its rapidly growing electricity demand.
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LCG, December 16, 2025--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced today that it has renewed the operating licenses of Constellation LLC’s Clinton Unit 1 in Clinton, Illinois, and Dresden Units 2 and 3, near Morris, Illinois, for an additional 20 years beyond the current expiration dates. The combined capacity of these three, Illinois-based nuclear units is 2,925 MW, and the operating license extension will enable the units to generate carbon-free power through about 2050.
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City of Austin Approves PPA for Texas Biomass Plant
LCG, August 29, 2008--The Austin City Council yesterday approved a 20-year, power purchase agreement (PPA) with Nacogdoches Power LLC for the electricity generated from a 100-MW facility fueled with biomass. The proposed facility is scheduled to commence operations in 2012.
The project, located in northwestern Nacogdoches County, will use a variety of wood wastes, including residues from forests and sawmills, as well as waste pallets and municipal wood waste. The facility will use a bubbling fluidized bed boiler to directly combust the wood wastes, together with a steam turbine for power generation. With respect to air emissions, the design includes a baghouse to control particulate emissions and a Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (SNCR) system for NOx control. With respect to carbon emissions, biomass power generation is deemed carbon neutral.
Unlike wind and solar renewable resources that generate power only when the wind blows or the sun shines, the hour-to-hour generation from a biomass facility can be dispatched by the operator to meet changing load and market conditions.
Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) is discussing a similar project with Nacogdoches Power LLC that could be constructed at the existing Deerhaven Generating Station near Gainesville, Florida.
Earlier this week, Georgia Power submitted a request to the Georgia Public Service Commission for approval to convert an aging, coal-fired unit at its Mitchell Generating Plant in Georgia to use wood wastes. The modified unit would use a direct-fire, stoker technology for a design capacity of 96 MW.
These three projects show a rising interest in developing large-scale, electric generating facilities that are reliant solely upon biomass as the fuel.
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