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The company was created in 1998, when LG&E Energy, parent of LG&E, acquired KU Energy, parent of KU and ODP. In 2000, Powergen , a British-based company, acquired LG&E Energy, which still operated under that name.
Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E) is a utilities company based in Louisville, Kentucky.A subsidiary of PPL Corporation through the LG&E and KU Energy subsidiary, [1] LG&E serves over 429,000 electric and over 333,000 natural gas customers, covers an area of 700 square miles (1800 km 2), and has a total regulated electric generation capacity of 2,760 megawatts.
The Cane Run Generating Station is a 640 megawatt , natural gas power plant owned and operated by Louisville Gas and Electric (LG&E). It is 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Downtown Louisville, Kentucky, in its Pleasure Ridge Park neighborhood. It was formerly a coal power plant until 2015.
Mill Creek Generating Station is LG&E's largest coal-fired power plant. It consumes about 4.8 million tons of fuel annually. In 2024, the utility began construction on a 640-megawatt natural gas combined-cycle generating unit at the plant, expected to begin operations in 2027.
In 1926, KU acquired Old Dominion Power. KU was acquired by LG&E Energy, parent of Louisville Gas & Electric, in 1998. This combination was then acquired by British utility company Powergen in 2000, and ultimately Powergen was bought by German utility company E.ON in 2003. E.ON renamed LG&E Energy as E.ON U.S.
Sion Power said on Wednesday the battery technology startup raised $75 million in an early-stage funding round led by South Korean battery manufacturer LG Energy Solution. The company, which also ...
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state/commonwealth of Kentucky, sorted by type and name.In 2022, Kentucky had a total summer capacity of 17,633 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 69,147 GWh. [2]
In the United States, E.ON inherited Louisville, Kentucky-based Louisville Gas & Electric Energy, via the acquisition of Powergen, and operated it as E.ON US, until 2010, when E.ON US was sold to Allentown, Pennsylvania-based PPL Corporation for $7.625 billion. The sale was closed on 1 November 2010, with E-ON US becoming LG&E and KU Energy. [18]