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Minnesota PUC Approves Operations Extension for Xcel Energy's Prairie Island Nuclear Plant

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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PGE Announces Addition of 475 MW of Battery Energy Storage Systems to Improve Grid Reliability and Costs

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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SunEdison Completes Regulus Solar PV Project in Central California

LCG, February 20, 2015 -SunEdison, Inc. announced Wednesday that it has completed the 81.6-MW (DC) Regulus solar project near Bakersfield, California and that the facility is now generating power.

The Regulus project is a groundmount solar generation facility located in Lamont, California. The facility includes approximately 250,000 SunEdison Silvantis™ solar photovoltaic (PV) panels that utilize SunEdison polysilicon and wafers. Operation and maintenance of the solar power plants will be performed by SunEdison Services.

The Regulus project was acquired from SunEdison by TerraForm Power, an indirect subsidiary of SunEdison that owns and operates clean power generation assets that have been acquired from SunEdison.

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