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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
Gas Storage Facility Construction Announced
LCG, Apr. 22, 2004--A planned natural gas storage facility to be in a salt cavern will proceed towards construction, according to SGR Holdings, LLC's subsidiary SG Resources Mississippi, LLC (SGRM), following FERC and Fish and Wildlife Service approvals.The facility, intended for Greene County, Mississippi, will provide firm and secondary firm storage at market rates. and have interconnects with Destin Pipeline Company, LLC, and Florida Gas Transmission Company (FGT) installations, among others. Mark Cook, a principal of SGRM, said "The Southern Pines Energy Center is ideally located to serve as a supply and storage market hub for seven major pipelines serving Florida and the southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States." Cook commented the Center could enhance the infrastructure available to serve Florida, the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.SGR plans to be operating the storage site by late 2005, and complete the 12 billion cubic feet of capacity by 2006. It would permit withdrawals of as much as 1.2 Bcf each day, and injections of up to .6 billion cubic feet per day.
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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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PLATO
Database of Plants, Loads, Assets, Transmission...
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