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ERCOT Announces Organizational Changes to Promote Grid Reliability, Rapid Demand Growth, and Innovation

LCG, December 12, 2025--Today, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) announced strategic organizational changes designed to accelerate innovation, strengthen grid reliability, and support the unprecedented growth in the demand for electricity across Texas. To meet these objectives, ERCOT created two new organizations: Interconnection and Grid Analysis, and Enterprise Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The two organizations will formally launch in January 2026.

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NextEra Energy Resources and Basin Electric Power Cooperative Announce MOU to Develop 1,450-MW Natural Gas-fired Power Plant in North Dakota

LCG, December 8, 2025--Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NextEra) today announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore the joint development of the River Run Energy Center, a new combined-cycle natural gas-fueled generation facility in Basin Electric's North Dakota service territory. The proposed facility will have a planned capacity of approximately 1,450 MW.

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Tampa Electric Affiliate Puts Plant On-line in Virginia

LCG, Aug. 15, 2000--An affiliate of Tampa Electric Co. threw a party yesterday morning to dedicate about half of a power plant in Accomack County, Virginia, which is across the Chesapeake Bay from the rest of the state.

The 312 megawatt Commonwealth Chesapeake Power Station is being built by Teco Power Services Corp. in two phases, and yesterdays ceremony celebrated commercial operation of the 135 megawatt first phase. The second phase is scheduled to begin production next June.

The plant was dedicated by Sen. John Warner, a Virginia Republican, and former Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, whose company, Mosbacher Energy Co. is affiliated with the plants developer.

Power from the plant is sold into the PJM wholesale market, the largest centrally dispatched electricity control area in North America.

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