News
LCG, September 30, 2025--Vistra Corp. announced yesterday that it will proceed with the next phase of its capital plan to support grid reliability in Texas. In 2024, Vistra identified over $1 billion worth of potential capital additions in generation capacity within the Texas ERCOT market by 2028 if market conditions were supportive. Now, with West Texas' growing power requirements, particularly the state's expanding oil and natural gas industries, Vistra reached a final investment decision and confirms it will build two new advanced natural gas-fired power units on-site at its Permian Basin Power Plant.
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LCG, September 24, 2025--Electric Reliability Council of Texas Inc. (ERCOT) yesterday announced its new initiative to increase its efforts to fully use and apply innovation and transformation through industry collaboration to best overcome the challenges and opportunities facing future grid operations. The new Grid Research, Innovation, and Transformation (GRIT) initiative will advance research and prototyping of emerging concepts and solutions to better understand the implications of rapid grid and technology evolution and position ERCOT to lead in the future energy landscape.
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Industry News
550 Megawatt Gregory, Texas, Plant On Line
LCG, July 27, 2000--Subsidiaries of Columbia Energy Group and LG&E Corp. yesterday announced the commercial operation of their jointly-owned 550 megawatt Gregory Power Plant, a natural gas-fired, combined-cycle cogeneration facility located at the Reynolds Metals Co. Sherwin Alumina plant in Gregory, Texas.Columbia Electric Corp. and LG&E Power Inc. are equal partners in the facility which will provide process steam and electricity to the Reynolds plant and sell surplus power in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas wholesale market. The companies said Dynegy Power Marketing Inc. will market the extra power." The commencement of commercial operations represents the culmination of many months ofplanning and hard work," said George Basinger, LG&E Energy senior vice president for power operations. "This facility will supply approximately 1.2 million pounds of steam per hour to theReynolds alumina plant in addition to being one of the lowest-cost electric generating facilities inTexas."
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