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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
Nine Mile Point Sold in Billion-dollar Deal
LCG, Dec. 12, 2000--Constellation Energy Group and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. said separately this morning that Constellation will purchase Unit 1 and 82 percent of Unit 2 of the Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant in a deal valued at about $1.04 billion.Niagara Mohawk said the sellers will realize $815 million in cash, $134 million in interest and $88 million in decommissioning savings.Constellation will get 82 percent of the 1,148 megawatt Nine Mile Point Unit 2 from its owners, Niagara Mohawk, New York State Electric & Gas Co., Rochester Gas & Electric Co. and Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. The Long Island Power Authority, an 18 percent owner of Nine Mile 2, elected to hang onto its share of the unit.Niagara Mohawk is the sole owner of the 609 megawatt Nine Mile Point Unit 1.The terms of the deal include power purchase agreements under which Constellation will sell 90 percent of the output of the two reactors back to the sellers for about 10 years at an average price of around $35 per megawatt-hour.
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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