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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
Federal Enron Probes to Dig Deeply
LCG, Dec. 6, 2001--Investigations by the U.S. Congress and federal government into collapse of Enron Corp. will go well beyond a simple probing of the company's abrupt downfall and dig into accounting and marketing practices as well as personnel policies.The powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee was set to meet with Enron in Houston today as part of its investigation which Rep. W. J. "Billy" Tauzin said would be "very aggressive." The committee plans to begin hearings in January."Too many people were hurt by this," Tauzin said. He added that he wanted to get to the bottom of how Enron manipulated accounting procedures and would also examine the impact of the company's failure on energy markets.The committee staff has already met with officials of accounting firm Arthur Andersen, Enron's auditors, as part of an inquiry into the energy company's accounting practices. The meeting "reconfirms our suspicion that this is a very complicated issue that will take months for our investigators to untangle," said committee spokesman Ken Johnson.The committee staff also met with the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which sets U.S. standards for corporate bookkeeping, but Johnson had no light to shed on that meeting.Officials from Arthur Andersen have so far declined comment but the "Big Five" accountancy firms issued a joint statement yesterday that responded to growing criticism over the quality and objectivity of Andersen's audits and promised to react to the implications of the Enron collapse.The House Energy and Commerce Committee isn't alone in its curiosity about Enron's record-keeping. The House Financial Services Committee plans to hold a hearing on Enron's financial practices next Wednesday. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt, Enron Chief Executive Ken Lay and top officials of Arthur Andersen are expected to testify.Did Enron Prohibit Employees from Selling 401(k) Stock?The U.S. Department of Labor will conduct its own investigation of Enron to determine whether thousands of its laid off workers were treated unfairly, especially with regard to their 401(k) retirement programs."Enron's employees have gotten the short end of the stick in the sudden collapse of this company and we are committed to doing everything we can to help them," Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said yesterday.Among the things Chao wants to find out is why Enron, prior to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last Sunday, had prohibited its workers for several weeks from selling stock held in voluntary retirement plans while the value of the stock continued its downward spiral.The Labor Department said in a statement that many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company said it would restate its earnings. The department said it is reviewing Enron's employee benefits plans, the rules governing them and steps the company took shortly before its collapse to prohibit employees from making transactions with their 401(k) plan assets.
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