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Entergy Estimates Customer Savings of $5B from "Fair Share Plus" Data Center Agreements

LCG, March 6, 2026--Entergy yesterday announced approximately $5 billion in total savings for 2.3 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi resulting from data center customer agreements in those states. Entergy, which completed its first data center customer agreement in 2024, projects the customer savings over the next 20 years and after the regulatory approval or acknowledgement of the public service commissions in those states.

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NRC Approves the Natrium® Reactor Construction Permit for TerraPower's Wyoming Nuclear Project

LCG, March 5, 2026--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced yesterday that it has authorized the staff to issue TerraPower’s subsidiary, US SFR Owner, a construction permit for the company’s Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 commercial nuclear power plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

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Commercial Operations Begin for Buffalo Gap 3 Wind Farm in Texas

LCG, September 25, 2008--AES Corporation yesterday announced commercial operations have commenced at the 170 MW Buffalo Gap 3 wind farm expansion near Abilene, Texas. AES signed a seven-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Direct Energy for all of the power produced by Buffalo Gap 3. The Buffalo Gap 3 expansion was announced in September of last year.

The Buffalo Gap 3 expansion includes 74 Siemens wind turbine generators. With the Buffalo Gap 3 expansion, the total electric generating capacity of the wind farm is 524 MW. All of the power generated from the wind farm is purchased under similar PPA's by Direct Energy.

The second phase of the Buffalo Gap project achieved commercial operation in August 2007 and added 233 MW of generating capacity from the installation of 155 wind turbine generators from GE.
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