News
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
State Okays Dayton Power & Light Sale of Gas Assets
LCG, July 13, 2000--The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has approved the sale by Dayton Power & Light Co. of its natural gas distribution assets to Vectren Corp., the curiously-named holding company for Indiana Gas Co. and Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Co.As part of their ruling, the regulators ordered that Vectren adopt DP&Ls existing tariff for gas service. The business will operated under the name Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio Inc.Niel C. Ellerbrook, chief executive of Vectren, said "With the timely receipt of the PUCO order, we are one step closer to our goal of completing this acquisition and providing quality services to our new customers in Ohio."The transaction still must be approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Public Utility Holding Company Act. Other remaining approvals include the Federal Communications Commission's authorization of the transfer of radio licenses held by DP&L, and action by certain local authorities regarding the transfer of operating rights.
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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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