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LCG, December 12, 2025--Today, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) announced strategic organizational changes designed to accelerate innovation, strengthen grid reliability, and support the unprecedented growth in the demand for electricity across Texas. To meet these objectives, ERCOT created two new organizations: Interconnection and Grid Analysis, and Enterprise Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The two organizations will formally launch in January 2026.
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LCG, December 8, 2025--Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NextEra) today announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore the joint development of the River Run Energy Center, a new combined-cycle natural gas-fueled generation facility in Basin Electric's North Dakota service territory. The proposed facility will have a planned capacity of approximately 1,450 MW.
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Industry News
Nevada Wants Utilities to Keep Their Power Plants
LCG, March 9, 2001The Nevada Public Utilities Commission yesterday began proceeding that would block the sale of power plants belonging to the state's two electric utilities, Nevada Power Co. and Sierra Pacific Power Co., both subsidiaries of Sierra Pacific Resources Inc.The PUC said the move was the result of concern that Nevadans would not have enough power to meet growing demand. Casting an eye westward to California, regulators are worried that the state's electricity supply might be controlled by out-of-state power producers.Chairman Don Soderberg of the PUC said "We can debate whether or not divestiture was a good idea at the time. But it's clear it is not a good idea today. When divestiture was first thought up we were worried about market power. Today, we're worried about keeping the lights on."It was fear of market power that caused the framers of California's now discredited deregulation plan to require investor-owned utilities to sell their power plants. Then, when demand outstripped supply, the purchasers of those plants were blamed by politicians of "plundering" the state."We need to have a certain level of certainty in our power supply. The California experience hasshown us we need to get back to what works," Soderberg admitted.Sierra Pacific Resources, which was ordered by Nevada regulators to sell its power plants as a condition of the merger between Sierra Pacific Power and Nevada Power in 1999, has already agreed to sell about 1,300 megawatts of generating capacity to NRG Energy Inc. and Dynegy Inc. for $643 million. NRG would operate the plants and Dynegy would sell the power.A Sierra Pacific Resources spokesman said the sale still requires federal and state approval.
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