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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
NRC Website Shutdown Could Boost Power Prices
LCG, Oct. 15, 2001--The decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to temporarily shut down its Website over concerns that it was providing terrorists with too much information could push up wholesale electricity prices, according to a report by Reuters news agency.The NRC closed the site last Thursday, posting the message "Our site is not operational at this time. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has taken the action to shut down its web site. In support of our mission to protect public health and safety, we are performing a review of all material on our site. We appreciate your patience and understanding during these difficult times."Icons on the site, which ordinarily lead to directories and maps showing the location of commercial nuclear reactors, design specifications for each facility and other possibly sensitive information were unclickable.Gone was a link to the agency's daily plant status report, a Web page that electricity traders look to for fundamental market supply data, Reuters said. EnergyOnline Daily News checks the page daily to learn of outages and unusual events at the nations nuclear power plants."If they find some reason this information would be dangerous in the hands of a terrorist, then I'm all for keeping it off the Web site," an unnamed trader told Reuters, echoing the views of all the power traders the news agency surveyed.The traders warned, however, that keeping the information from the marketplace would give reactor owners and the local utilities they supply a big advantage over energy marketers who have no power plants in the area.Nuclear power plants are big -- on the order of 1,000 megawatts per reactor -- and they are baseload plants, producing electricity nearly 100 percent of the time for a year or two at a stretch. When one reactor comes off line, replacement power must be found for it.Because nuclear power is among the lowest cost source of electricity, the replacement power frequently costs a great deal more. Energy traders, without knowing the status of the reactors, will have to hedge their bets, which could lead to higher prices."You take in all the information available, process it and make a best guess at what the price of power will be each day based on what plants are available, what the weather is, what the cost of fuel is. Not knowing where the nukes are is just another unknown that will cost money," a trader told Reuters.
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The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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