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A new 97.6-megawatt battery-storage wind power facility is now online in West Virginia. The installation represents the world's largest lithium-ion-based wind energy storage project and the biggest advanced battery clean energy project in the United States.

Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC) said today it will buy the 720-megawatt (MW) Wolf Hollow combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in north Texas from Sequent Wolf Hollow, LLC, for $305 million. The plant serves the Dallas and Fort Worth markets.

Shares of The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) were up 5% in early trading today after the company said it had agreed to acquire DPL Inc. (NYSE: DPL), the parent company of Dayton Power & Light, for $3.5 billion. AES will also assume DPL’s debt of $1.2 billion. Upon closing of the transaction, DPL will become a wholly owned subsidiary of AES with headquarters in Dayton, Ohio.

In a superb example of the shrinking renewable energy world, France's EDF Energies Nouvelles (Paris: EEN.PA) is building a 205.5-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Lakefield, Minnesota designed to feed power to Indiana.