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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved NextEra Energy’s request for a waiver allowing the company to move forward with plans to recommission the shuttered Duane Arnold nuclear power plant in Palo.

The move clears a procedural hurdle in the company’s effort to restart Iowa’s only nuclear power plant by the end of the decade.

In an order issued Monday , FERC said NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC (NEDA) met the criteria for a waiver of Midcontinent Independent System Operator, or MISO, provisions governing interconnection requests. The ruling lets NextEra consolidate existing interconnection rights and use MISO’s generating facility replacement process to support the plant’s res

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