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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
Recurrent Energy Acquires 400 MWh of Standalone Energy Storage Projects in Texas
LCG, June 17, 2022--Recurrent Energy, LLC (“Recurrent”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. (“Canadian Solar”), yesterday announced the acquisition of two, standalone energy storage projects in the Texas ERCOT market from Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES). Each project is expected to store as much as 200 MWh of energy. Both projects are currently in development, with plans to commence operations in the second quarter of 2024.
The chairman and CEO of Canadian Solar stated, “ERCOT is one of the fastest growing markets in the world for energy storage, driven by market demand for flexible capacity. We are pleased to accelerate our ERCOT storage pipeline with the acquisition of two projects totaling 400 MWh of storage from Black Mountain Energy Storage. We look forward to bringing our storage development, financing and construction experience to bear as we bring these projects to fruition and increase grid reliability for Texans.”
The two projects are located in the South Load Zone of the ERCOT market and will be operated as merchant projects that provide dispatchable power, which should improve grid reliability. Recurrent will continue to develop the projects, finalize entitlements and designs, select and procure equipment, raise project financing, and construct the facilities.
The Director of Corporate Development at BMES stated, “It's bittersweet to see these projects leave the nest, but I must say Recurrent picked them well. We ought to see pronounced volatility at these nodes for years to come, and these batteries will not only capture significant value but provide resiliency in a sparse region of ERCOT's transmission network. Identifying challenged areas of the transmission network that produce outsized opportunities for spread capture is BMES' core focus, and we have 3.0 GW of optimally sited ERCOT BESS projects in the hopper behind these two. We're excited to see Recurrent Energy take each of these projects into the next phase of development and appreciate the expertise the folks at LevelTen Energy brought to the table to facilitate an efficient transaction process.”
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