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Greenflash Infrastructure Closes Transaction for ERCOT's Largest Battery Storage Project Under Construction

LCG, October 7, 2025--Greenflash Infrastructure, L.P. ("Greenflash") today announced that it has successfully closed a hybrid tax capital and debt financing for Project Soho - a 400MW / 800MWh standalone battery storage project in Texas.

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FERC Approves Vistra's Plan to Acquire Nearly 2,600 MW of Gas-fired Power Plants

LCG, October 6, 2025--Vistra today announced that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved Vistra's acquisition of certain subsidiaries owning seven natural gas generation facilities from Lotus Infrastructure Partners. The acquisition was announced last May, and Vistra expects the transaction to close this quarter or during the first quarter of 2026. Vistra's acquisition remains subject to approval by the New York Public Service Commission and other customary closing conditions.

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Federal Court May Decide California Electric Rates

LCG, Feb. 12, 2001Even as California Gov. Gray Davis and the state legislature wrestle with what they regard as a "bailout" for the state's nearly bankrupt electric utilities, a federal judge in Los Angeles could decided how much consumers have to pay for power they have already used.

Since whole sale power prices began exceeding in May of last year what the utilities could charge their retail customers, the two largest California utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison Co., have gone into a financial hole exceeding $12 billion bailing out ratepayers.

SoCal Edison sued the California Public Utilities Commission in the U.S. District Court for Los Angeles last November after the regulators had repeatedly refused to lift a the rate freeze that prevented the company from charging the true cost of power. A similar suit by PG&E was recently transferred to the L.S. court and the two are expected to be consolidated.

The SoCal Edison case is on the court's docket for today, and it is difficult not to recall the words of William Massey, a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who on December 15 said "Some day soon a federal court, when asked, will declare that utilities are entitled to recover these high wholesale costs from their customers."

But in Sacramento, the governor and lawmaker are still trying to find a way out for the utilities that won't burden, and hence upset, consumers who are also taxpayers and voters.

The utilities have agreed to take part in state Senate hearings this week. "We have reached agreement with the utilities on a timetable to resolve this issue," Davis said. "They've agreed to participate in hearings dealing with their finances."

Pending the outcome of the hearings, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer has asked the Los Angeles court to delay any decision in the utilities' suit against the CPUC.

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