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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
Cal-ISO Releases Names of Idle Power Plants
LCG, Jan. 29, 2001The California Independent System Operator began Saturday to release the names of power plants that are sitting on the sidelines while the ISO is scrambling for power to keep the state's electric transmission grid from breaking down.Power plant owners had regarded the information as highly sensitive, believing the knowledge that a plant was shut down would confer a competitive advantage, and insisted on secrecy. There are also employers who think employees don't know what each other earns.California Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation last week requiring the disclosure. The new law was backed by consumer activists who believe that independent power producers have been secretly keeping their plants off line in order to drive up wholesale electricity prices."At one time this was pretty secret stuff," said Duke Energy Corp. spokesman Tom Williams of the disclosure, adding it now "has a limited effect on the market because traders know what units are down."On Saturday and Sunday, Cal-ISO issued at around noon lists of plants shut down for planned maintenance and for unplanned problems. As this is written, the most recent report is that for yesterday.The biggest unit shut down in an unplanned outage was the 750 megawatt Moss Landing Unit 6, an old plant that Duke purchased from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and wants to replace with a modern facility.There were 25 generating units idle in unplanned outages yesterday, and it would be hard to accuse power producers of collusion on the basis of the list. Among those facilities were two 45 megawatt units belonging to the City of Pasadena, a 53 megawatt unit at the San Luis Dam operated by the California Department of Water Resources and two units of 25 megawatts each in Alameda County operated by the Northern California Power Association, which furnishes electricity to municipal utilities.
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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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