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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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CA Commission Submits its PG&E Bankruptcy Plan
LCG, April 16, 2002-The California Public Utilities Commission filed its plan for PG&E's emergence from bankruptcy.The Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric Utility both have ideas about how to erase the $13.5 billion debt that the utility shoulders. According to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco, the utility's creditors will get to vote on which proposal should be implemented.The plan submitted by the Commission calls for payment of creditors, including interest, as well as the re-establishment of an investment-grade credit rating by 2003. The plan includes withholding dividends from shareholders until the end of January next year. The utility would also be required to sell some of its common stock to resolve some thirteen percent of its debt. The unpaid dividends may result in "substantial litigation," according to PG&E, and the utility fears that the sale of stock and the suspension of dividends will be detrimental to employees and retirees who own a lot of stock in the utility.Additionally, the Commission's plan provides for no increase in electricity rates, and PG&E must continue to abide by state regulations. PG&E Corporation, PG&E utility's parent company, will also be partially responsible, monetarily speaking, for getting PG&E utility out of debt.PG&E's rival plan, submitted earlier, suggests breaking the utility into four companies, three of which would fall outside of state regulation and therefore out of the influence of the Public Utilities Commission.May 3rd is the deadline for all objections regarding the Commission's plan, and Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali has suggested the 17th of June for the commencement of voting by creditors.
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