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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
Replacing Stoplights With LEDs Pays Off
LCG, April 15, 2003-Have you been stopped at a light recently and noticed the stoplight was not one continuous color but actually composed of many smaller lights? California has replaced many of its incandescent stoplight bulbs with efficient light-emitting diodes.Using LEDs in stoplights and traffic signals currently saves California 17 megawatts of capacity, according to the California Energy Commission.California transportation authorities are responsible for more than 2 million traffic signals. Over 200,000 California units have been switched over to LEDs, starting with the red lights, which are on at least 60% of the time.LEDs have been used in traffic signals for over ten years, but the cost of using the semiconductor-based units has in the last few years come down to a very affordable level.Conventional light bulbs use a high-resistance filament, which glows when current runs through it. Much energy is lost in the form of heat and infrared radiation, a property which can be quickly verified if you have ever tried to unscrew a lightbulb after a light has been on for several hours.Light-emitting diodes, however, operate by quantum mechanically converting electron kinetic energy into photons, or light energy. Very little energy is lost by way of heat or other modes of radiation. LEDs have a specially engineered "band gap" which allows higher energy electrons to lose exactly the amount of energy necessary to produce light of a specific wavelength, or color.In addition to being much more energy efficient, LED's last an average of 8 years, as opposed to the average 1.5 year incandescent bulb lifetime. LEDs in stoplights also confer an advantage in that they are quite small. Even if several of the LEDs in a stoplight burn out, the stoplight can still function because most of the lights will still work, providing for greater safety.Caltrans officials have said LEDs have brought down energy and maintenance expenditures by $5.7 million.LEDs are often used for small lights on bicycles and keychains, but some companies are looking into broadening the use of the devices, applying them to more demanding applications such as stadium lights.
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