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LCG, August 15, 2025--Xcel Energy announced that the company received state approval yesterday from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to extend operations of the Prairie Island nuclear plant through the early 2050s. Prairie Island has two units that have a combined generating capacity of 1,100 MW. The units’ current operating licenses expire in 2033 and 2034.
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LCG, August 7, 2025--Portland General Electric (PGE) today announced the completion of three, four-hour lithium-ion utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Oregon, adding 475 MW and more than 1.9 GWh of dispatchable capacity to serve the Portland metro area. Each of these BESS facilities can deliver power during peak demand or when other electric generating facilities are limited, which improves system flexibility, reliability and costs.
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Industry News
ACCIONA Energy Targets Completion of Two Wind Projects by End of 2008
LCG, October 21, 2008--ACCIONA Energy announced plans to complete two wind farms by year-end. The combined cost for the two projects is $495 million dollars, and the projects will include a large number of wind turbines manufactured in the United States at ACCIONA Windpower's plant in Iowa.
The Red Hills project is in western Oklahoma and includes 82 of ACCIONA's AW-1500 wind turbines. The wind farm electric generating capacity will be 123 MW, and the project is estimated to cost $267 million. Thirty-four of the 1.5-MW turbines will be produced at the new manufacturing facility in West Branch, Iowa, with the remainder manufactured at ACCIONA's plant in Spain.
The EcoGrove I wind farm is located in Stephenson County, Illinois and includes 67 AW-1500 wind turbines. The wind farm electric generating capacity will be 100.5 MW, and the project is estimated to cost $228 million. This wind farm will be the first project built by ACCIONA using the project portfolio acquired from EcoEnergy last year.
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