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
Calpine Announces 336 Megawatt Colorado Plant
LCG, March 19, 2001Calpine corp. said Friday that its SkyGen Energy subsidiary would build a 336 megawatt natural gas-fueled peaking plant in Aurora, Colo., to supply power to Xcel Energy, the former Public Service Co. of Colorado, with electricity during periods of high demand.The plant, which will employ two General Electric combustion turbines, will be located near natural gas pipelines serving the area east of Denver and will have access to existing transmission lines belonging to Xcel.Tom Ashburn, community service manager for Xcel, said "SkyGen Energy's facility will be a crucial component in helping us meet the power needs of our customers in an economic and efficient manner."Construction of the Colorado Energy Center is expected to begin during the summer of 2002, with commercial operation starting in 2003. The initial agreement with Xcel is for a term of ten years. Under the agreement, Xcel will have dispatch rights for all of the capacity and energy produced by the facility and will also manage the purchase and delivery of fuel used at the facility.Calpine said it will manage construction of the project and will own and operate the facility.
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