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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
Regulators Move State Closer to Electric Dereg
LCG, Sept. 6, 2000Utility regulators in New Hampshire, which has for five years been toying with electric industry restructuring, moved the state a step closer to a competitive power market yesterday by endorsing a legislation passed last spring by state lawmakers.While no formal order was issued, the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission approved a settlement agreement that conforms to a new law passed in May to end a four-year dispute with Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, the state's largest utility.In 1995, the New Hampshire legislature passed a law requiring PSNH to run a pilot program to test the likely consequences of deregulation. The utility did so in 1996 and discovered that one of the consequences would be lower rates rates insufficient to allow it to recover its investments in power plants, substations, transmission lines and the rest of the electric utility infrastructure.When state politicians started talking about rate cuts approaching 20 percent, PSNH was alarmed, and went to court to halt the process. It has been bogged down ever since.Yesterday's regulatory action could end the stalemate at least Gov. Jeanne Shaheen thinks so. "This is an important step forward in our efforts to lower electric bills and to allow New Hampshire families and businesses to finally choose their own electric suppliers," Shaheen said. "I look forward to the Public Utilities Commission moving quickly to complete its work on the settlement agreement, moving us toward electric competition and another rate cut."Under the legislation endorsed by the commission, electric rates will be reduced 5 percent on October 1 and will drop another 12 percent when actual competition begins. A typical householder stands to save about $13 on his electric bill next month.Gary Long, president of PSNH, said "It's always been our intent to have restructuring happen for our company this year. We think we can meet it, if there aren't roadblocks put in our way."There could be a couple of roadblocks, the result of the treatment of PSNH stranded costs by the legislation and yesterday's commission action. PSNH will absorb $450 million of its estimated $2.3 billion in stranded costs, but will be allowed to refinance $800 million through securitization and stands a chance to collect the rest over a period of up to 14 years.Those provisions will be challenged in court by The Campaign for Ratepayers' Rights and the Great Bay Power Corp.Robert Backus, lawyer for the ratepayers group, said "We are not satisfied the order achieves a significant benefit for ratepayers. For many of us with long memories, it's just irrefutable that the so-called stranded costs arose out of decisions by PSNH management in which the ratepayers had no right and no voice to dispute what they did."Great Bay owns 12 percent of the 1,200 megawatt Seabrook nuclear power plant, which this morning was humming along at 100 percent of capacity. Great Bay's lawyer, Steven Camerino, said the company, which sells the power on the wholesale market, pays about $1.7 million a year into Seabrook's decommissioning fund and could be at a disadvantage if the plant were sold to buyers who didn't have that cost.New Hampshire legislator Jeb Bradley, a backer of the legislative compromise, called the commission action a "reasonable solution to a festering problem." He pointed out "Every day a customer of PSNH paid a PSNH bill, they were paying all of PSNH's stranded costs and existing bills, so PSNH was inexorably marching to the end zone of full recovery of all of their stranded costs if we did not get this deal done."
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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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