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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
Southern in Deal to Bid on Enel Generation Unit
LCG, July 28, 2000--The Southern Co. of the U.S. and Italian conglomerate CIR said in a joint statement this morning that they "will create a consortium with the aim of buying one of the generatingcompanies that (Italys state-owned electric company) Enel must sell in the upcoming months."Under rules adopted by the European Commission, Enel will have to divest itself of some 15,000 megawatts of generation by 2003. On order to do so, the company is forming separate generation companies grouping its power plants.In their statement, Southern and CIR said "The two largest companies, Eurogen of 7,000 megawatts and Electrogen of 5,400 megawatts, are particularly interesting."Southerns investment would be made through its Southern Energy subsidiary, which already has a European presence with its majority interest in Germanys Bewag and a power trading company in The Netherlands."CIR and Southern Energy intend to develop their generating activity and commercialization of energy to create one of the leading Italian groups and an important operator at a European level," the statement said.Southern Energy may also build new natural gas-fired power plants in Italy, the statement added.CIR would make its investment through a subsidiary, Energia Italiana.
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The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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