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(Reporting reviews pedrique by Eileen spring training baseball diagnoses O'Grady; Editing by Gary Hill) Stocks Funds News ETFs News. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas Instruments Inc (TXN.N) posted a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit and outlook, but was wary about declaring that the worst was over for the economy and demand for its chips. The Sandow consent decree allowed Alcoa to build a newpower plant near its Rockdale, Texas, smelter operation, toreplace two, smaller dirtier coal units Those units were shutin late 2006. Luminant became a party to the consent decree when itacquired development rights for Sandow 5 Alcoa has sincescaled back the smelter's operation. Privately held Energy Future Holdings is owned by KohlbergKravis Roberts [KKR.UL], TPG Capital [TPG.UL] and Goldman Sachs(GS.N). "The project's cost remains on budget and the overallschedule is currently within two to three months of the initialtarget of mid-year 2009," the filing said. The filing blamed construction delays after Hurricane Ikestruck Texas last September and unspecified equipmentproblems.

In its filing, Luminant said it has requested a 59-dayextension of the Aug diamond back baseball . 31 deadline from parties involved in a2003 consent order between Alcoa Inc (AA.N) and environmentalgroups spring training map . Output from the new Sandow unit also was expected to helpoffset the loss of more than 2,000 MW of aging, naturalgas-fired units that Luminant retired ahead of the summerseason spring training sites . While nopower disruptions were reported, the grid operator cited a highnumber of plant outages as it called for residents to reduceelectric use spring training arizona 2009 schedule . Texas has already set two all-time electric demand recordsthis month as blazing heat and a lack of rain kept airconditioners running for long periods Normally, ERCOT sees record demand in August. 31, 2009," Luminant said in afiling with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A spokeswoman for Luminant's parent, Energy Future HoldingsCorp, said the unit's full operation will be delayed "two tothree months." The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), thestate's primary grid operator, was counting on Sandow 5 toproduce power this summer when temperatures rise and powerdemand for air conditioning soars chase field events . "Sandow Power does not expect that the Sandow 5 unit,operating at full capacity, would meet the required emissionrate limits on or before Aug spring training tickets . Stocks  |  Funds News  |  ETFs News Dallas-based Luminant said the new Sandow unit wassynchronized to the grid and produced power in early July, butweather-related construction delays and some equipmentmalfunctions during initial testing mean the unit will not meeta deadline for commercial operation and emission standards setout in a 2007 court order related to a federal consent decree spring training schedules . Dow'sstock rose to $18.34 in extended trade after closing at $17.81,also on the NYSE spring training baseball . (Reporting by Euan Rocha and Nichola Groom; Editing by BernardOrr) Stocks Japan Mexico South Korea.

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