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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
CMS Energy Sells 59 Megawatt New York Hydro Plant
LCG, Oct. 30, 2000--CMS Energy Corp. the parent company for Michigan's Consumers Energy Co., said on Friday it has closed the sale of its one-eighth ownership interest in the Curtis-Palmer hydroelectric generating project in New York State to International Paper Co. for about $12 million.Curtis-Palmer is a 58.8 megawatt, two-dam hydroelectric generating project located in Corinth, N.Y., on the Hudson River downstream from Lake George. The facility sells its electric output to Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. under a long-term contract.CMS said the sale is part of its $1.4 billion asset sale and "balance sheet improvement" program. With the sale, CMS has completed approximately $870 million of cash proceeds and balance sheetdebt reductions to date as part of its program to get the most out of its assets." We are executing our asset sale program, and expect to make continued progress on sales of non-strategic assets this year," said Preston D. Hopper, senior vice president for corporate performance and chief accounting officer.
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