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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
FERC Threatens Trading Licenses of Energy Companies
LCG, June 5, 2002--Today the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) warned that the trading licenses of four companies were in jeopardy due their lack of cooperation in an electricity market investigation. Williams Cos. Ltd., El Paso Electric, which is independent of El Paso Corporation, Avista Corp., and Portland General Electric Co. were ordered to "show cause why the commission should not revoke their market-based rate authority" within ten days. According to FERC, the companies failed to properly respond to an order requiring that they state whether or not they had participated in manipulative market practices.FERC's order, signed by three commissioners, said that the four energy traders' responses were "indicative of a failure by these companies to cooperate with our investigation."Williams was told that it did not answer the original order in a straightforward manner, a statement that Williams contests.Over 100 companies are under scrutiny in FERC's investigation, which came after memos were released relating Enron trading strategies to market manipulation. The Enron strategies in question include "ricochet," which called for selling electricity out-of-state prior to selling it in-state for the purposes of avoiding price caps and increasing profit.FERC asserts that trading records from Portland General link that company and Avista to manipulative practices and that trading between the companies were "designed to further the Ricochet and Death Star trading strategies."Although a public memo refers to $7.3 million in joint revenue between El Paso Electric and Enron, El Paso claimed a mere ball-park $700,000 in its affidavit to FERC and ignorance to any Enron actions taken on its behalf, which FERC asserts is "simply not credible."Stocks of the four companies are seeing negative effects from the FERC order.
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UPLAN-NPM
The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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UPLAN-ACE
Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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UPLAN-G
The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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