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ERCOT Announces Organizational Changes to Promote Grid Reliability, Rapid Demand Growth, and Innovation

LCG, December 12, 2025--Today, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) announced strategic organizational changes designed to accelerate innovation, strengthen grid reliability, and support the unprecedented growth in the demand for electricity across Texas. To meet these objectives, ERCOT created two new organizations: Interconnection and Grid Analysis, and Enterprise Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The two organizations will formally launch in January 2026.

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NextEra Energy Resources and Basin Electric Power Cooperative Announce MOU to Develop 1,450-MW Natural Gas-fired Power Plant in North Dakota

LCG, December 8, 2025--Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NextEra) today announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore the joint development of the River Run Energy Center, a new combined-cycle natural gas-fueled generation facility in Basin Electric's North Dakota service territory. The proposed facility will have a planned capacity of approximately 1,450 MW.

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Lay Steps Down From CEO Post and Chairmanship of Enron

LCG, Jan. 24, 2002--Enron's chairman and CEO Ken Lay has left those positions, under pressure from a bankruptcy court-appointed creditors committee.

Lay will assist Enron's board of directors in selecting a restructuring specialist, who will be acting CEO until a formal replacement is found. In a statement, Lay said, "unfortunately, with the multiple inquiries and investigations that currently require much of my time, it is becoming increasingly difficult to concentrate fully on what is most important to Enron's stakeholders."

The 15-member creditors committee held strong doubts about Lay's effectiveness in seeing that creditors are repaid, in view of the series of sales of Enron stock Lay made in 2001 while the company's financial position was crumbling.

Hearings regarding Enron begin on Capital Hill today before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee ("The Destruction of Enron-Related Documents by Andersen Personnel"), and before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee ("The Fall of Enron - How Could It Have Happened?").

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