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
AEP to Split into Two Firms, Target Wholesale Power
LCG, Nov. 1, 2000--American Electric Power Co. chief executive E. Linn Draper said yesterday his company plans to split into two companies, one to focus on competitive wholesale power and the other to operate the company's regulated businesses in the U.S. and abroad."Our focus for growth moving forward, plain and simple, will be the wholesale business; generation and related energy assets, wholesale marketing and trading," said Draper who was addressing a San Francisco conference sponsored by the Edison Electric Institute. He also said that AEP has decided not to pursue combination of its 100 percent owned British regional electric company Seeboard Plc with Yorkshire Electricity Plc, another REC it owns in equal shares with Xcel Energy Inc. AEP would have bought out Xcel under the plan.Draper said that AEP would apply later this week to the Securities and Exchange Commission for authority to form the two companies. The two firms would be under am umbrella holding company, he said.Draper would not say whether public offerings were contemplated for selling stock in the two new companies. "We have a number of options to consider, but we expect it will take at least a year" to get necessary regulatory approvals and complete all the paperwork to set up the companies he said.
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