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LCG, September 12, 2025--Entergy announced yesterday that the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) approved Entergy Texas’ proposal to build two efficient natural gas-fired power plants to support the region’s rapid growth. The combined electric generating capacity of the two facilities, the Legend Power Station and the Lone Star Power Station, will add over 1,200 MW to the Southeast Texas power grid to support new customer demand, increase reliability and lower costs for all customers. Both facilities are scheduled to commence operations by mid-2028.
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LCG, September 4, 2025--Puget Sound Energy (PSE) announced yesterday that phased construction has commenced on its 142-MW Appaloosa Solar Project, a utility-scale solar facility underway in southeastern Washington. The project is being built by Qcells EPC, who will serve as the module manufacturer and the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solution provider. Construction is scheduled through 2026, and commercial operation is expected at the end of next year.
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Industry News
AEP to Split into Two Firms, Target Wholesale Power
LCG, Nov. 1, 2000--American Electric Power Co. chief executive E. Linn Draper said yesterday his company plans to split into two companies, one to focus on competitive wholesale power and the other to operate the company's regulated businesses in the U.S. and abroad."Our focus for growth moving forward, plain and simple, will be the wholesale business; generation and related energy assets, wholesale marketing and trading," said Draper who was addressing a San Francisco conference sponsored by the Edison Electric Institute. He also said that AEP has decided not to pursue combination of its 100 percent owned British regional electric company Seeboard Plc with Yorkshire Electricity Plc, another REC it owns in equal shares with Xcel Energy Inc. AEP would have bought out Xcel under the plan.Draper said that AEP would apply later this week to the Securities and Exchange Commission for authority to form the two companies. The two firms would be under am umbrella holding company, he said.Draper would not say whether public offerings were contemplated for selling stock in the two new companies. "We have a number of options to consider, but we expect it will take at least a year" to get necessary regulatory approvals and complete all the paperwork to set up the companies he said.
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