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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
Ausra's Solar Thermal Plant Commences Power Production
LCG, October 24, 2008--Ausra, Inc. yesterday celebrated, together with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the opening of its Kimberlina Solar Thermal Energy Plant, located near Bakersfield, California. The project, which began construction only seven months ago, has an electric generating capacity of 5 MW. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will purchase the power from the facility.
The Kimberlina Solar Thermal Energy Plant facility incorporates Ausra's Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) solar technology, which is designed to use the sun's energy to boil water at high temperatures to power steam turbine generators, similar to traditional fossil-fuel power plants - but without air or water emissions. According to Ausra, a CLFR collector reflects and concentrates sunlight on an elevated absorber to roughly 30 times the intensity of sunshine at the earth?s surface.
The design can be scaled up to generate more power. Last November, PG&E announced a power purchase agreement with Ausra for the electric output from a 177-MW solar thermal power project proposed in central California in San Luis Obispo County. The project, Carrizo Plains Solar Power Plant, is scheduled to be operational in 2010. The solar collector footprint for the Carrizo Plains project will require about one square mile (640 acres) of land.
California passed a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Program that requires utilities to increase their electric supply procurement of eligible renewable generating resources by one percent of load per year, with a 20 percent renewables target by the end of 2010 and a 33 percent target by the end of 2020.
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