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ComEd Bribery Scandal Clouds Picture for Exelon’s Illinois Nuclear Plants

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” At the same time, Crane noted the company is “in the middle of trying to work through legislative strategy in Illinois” that would offer its nuclear power plants in the state an alternative path to earning capacity market revenue that is seen as a critical component of their future financial viability.

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Texas Blackout Hearings Highlight Intertwined Risks of Natural Gas, Power Grid and Deregulated Market

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Politicians and regulators have highlighted power plant operators’ failure to winterize equipment against cold temperatures, despite guidance to do so after similar, if much smaller-scale, winter rolling blackouts in 2011.

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Looking for Fixes to What Broke the Texas Power Grid

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After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. In different ways, the very cold weather and snow has impacted every type of generator.”