NextEra has ordered major items for Duane Arnold nuclear restart, CEO says

By Laila Kearney

Oct 28 (Reuters) - NextEra Energy NEE.N has ordered major equipment for the restart of its Duane Arnold nuclear power plant in Iowa, with items including a power generator and cooling towers, CEO John Ketchum told Reuters on Tuesday.

NextEra, which is one of the largest global power companies, announced this week that it had struck a long-term energy purchase deal with Google GOOGL.O to restart the Iowa nuclear facility after five years of closure.

Duane Arnold shut for economic reasons in 2020, the same year that a severe windstorm damaged the plant's cooling towers. In addition to the cooling structures, NextEra will also replace a generator at the site and a transformer, Ketchum said.