Dipladenia is a bushier plant whose stems grow down and hang. The two plants have similar brightly colored flowers, but mandevilla has a larger flower typically in red. Both plants need the same bright light and dipladenia care is the same as that for the mandevilla vine.
Peru Owned Hydroelectric Power Station. The city of Peru owns and manages the Starved Rock hydroelectric power stationâthe only such energy generating facility on the Illinois River. The city has owned and operated its own electric generation, transmission, and distribution system continuously since 1891.
Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant. The Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant is a two-unit pressurized water reactor (PWR) of Westinghouse design. The plant is located on the Mississippi River about 40 miles southeast of the Twin Cities and about 5 miles north of Red Wing, Minn. The Unit 1 reactor began operating in December 1973 and the Unit 2 reactor in December 1974. About 800 people are employed full time at Prairie Island. Xcel Energy also owns the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant in Monticello, Minn.