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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
Nuclear Regulator Apologizes for Tokaimura Accident
LCG, July 10, 2000--Japans Nuclear Safety Commission apologized in a report submitted to the cabinet Friday for the accident last September that took two lives at the Tokaimura nuclear fuel processing plant 75 miles northeast of Tokyo.Two workers died and a third was badly injured as a result of radiation exposure that occurred when they inadvertently started a nuclear chain reaction. The three had been using ordinary buckets to mix uranium and nitric acid in an unprotected tank. One of them said they were using the shortcut to save time.The commissions report blamed a lack of safety culture for the accident, and took responsibility for not establishing such a culture.We deeply regret that the commission could not fulfill its duties, and we feel tremendous responsibility over being unable to respond to the publics trust, the report said.The commission was more than willing to share the blame with the plants operator, Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute. JCN, it pointed out, had instituted procedures not authorized for nuclear installations and then had not even followed its own procedures.
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The Locational Marginal Price Model (LMP) Network Power Model
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Day Ahead and Real Time Market Simulation
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The Gas Procurement and Competitive Analysis System
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