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  1. U.S. Regulated Electric Utility Companies Could Benefit From Coal To Gas Switching, Report Says

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    Tue, 15 May 2012

    STANDARD &POOR'S FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC ("S&PZZ-L") - U.S. Regulated Electric Utility Companies Could Benefit - From Coal-To-Gas Switching, Report Says With natural gas prices in the U.S. tumbling toward $2 per million Btu over the past few years, a number of regulated electric utilities that ...

  2. Xcel pauses Prairie Island upgrade

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    Mon, 2 Apr 2012

    Xcel Energy Inc. said Friday that it has halted work on a project to boost output at its Prairie Island nuclear power plant until regulators review whether it's still worth doing. The Minneapolis-based utility said that the project, now estimated to cost $310 million, is not as advantageous as once

  1. Nuclear power fuel contract awarded to Areva

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    Wed, 4 Jan 2012

    Areva said it has signed an integrated fuel and related services contract with Xcel Energy to supply the 610 MW Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant in Minnesota.

  2. New classes available through PowerGen University

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    Tue, 17 Jan 2012

    Five new classes are now available through Power Generation University! Classes include a repowering project at Xcel Energy's (NYSE: XEL ) Riverside Power Plant, reducing mercury at Portland General Electric's Boardman Generating Station and Co-firing of Biomass in the U.S. PowerGen University has

  3. Completion, Startup and Acquisition of $22 Million Valley View Wind Farm

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    Thu, 22 Dec 2011

    JUHL WIND INC ("JUHL-L") - Completion, Startup and Acquisition of $22 Million Valley - View Wind Farm Juhl Wind, Inc. (the "Company"), the Leader in Community Wind Power, today announced the official commercial operation and its acquisition of the $22 million Valley View Wind Farm located near the

  4. Xcel's power pullback

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    Fri, 2 Dec 2011

    Xcel Energy Inc. said Thursday that it won't need as much electricity in the near future, and the utility will put off generation-boosting upgrades to coal-fired and nuclear power plants in Minnesota. Yet even as the Minneapolis-based utility revised its energy forecast, it said it plans to spend

  5. Alert ends after bleach leak at nuclear power plant

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    Fri, 6 Jan 2012

    An alert ended January 5 at the 1,076 MW Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant in Minnesota after a plant worker found industrial bleach leaking from a pipe.

  6. Juhl Wind, Inc. Announces Completion, Startup and Acquisition of $22 Million Valley View Wind Farm; Valley View Becomes the Third Wind Farm Investment Added to its Asset Base

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    Thu, 22 Dec 2011

    Juhl Wind, Inc. (OTCBB: JUHL, the "Company"), the Leader in Community Wind Power, today announced the official commercial operation and its acquisition of the $22 million Valley View Wind Farm located near the Company's headquarters in Chandler, Minnesota in the southwestern part of the state. The

  7. Coal-fired power plant to be upgraded by B&W

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    Fri, 3 Feb 2012

    Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc. has been awarded a contract to design and supply two spray dry absorber units and associated equipment for a coal-fired power plant in Colorado.

  8. -NEW BLACK HILLS ELECTRIC UTILITY AND IPP GENERATION FACILITIES IN COLORADO READY TO SERVE CUSTOMERS ON JAN. 1, 2012

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    Thu, 29 Dec 2011

    ENP Newswire - 29 December 2011 Release date - 21122011 PUEBLO, COLO. - Black Hills Corp. (NYSE: BKH) today announced that its new generation facilities will be ready to begin commercial operations on Jan. 1, 2012. Black Hills Energy - Colorado Electric owns the $ 227 million, 180-megawatt ...