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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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Newsmakers
Lisa M. Bodensteiner, general counsel for Calpine Corp., has been promotedto senior vice president. In 1996, Bodensteiner joined Calpine as associate counsel. Since then, her responsibilities have grown rapidly to include oversight of a large and expanding legal staff at the corporate office and the regional offices in Boston, Houston and Pleasanton, Calif.John Erickson has been named president of Otter Tail Corp., the new name of Otter Tail Power Co. He was made an executive vice president in June of last year in preparation for the retirement of John MacFarlane who will remain chairman and chief executive until 2002, when Erickson is expected to succeed him in those positions.Alan J. Noia, chairman, p[resident, and chief executive ofAllegheny Energy Inc., has been elected a director of the Electric Power Research Institute for a four-year term, beginning this month.Bruce E. Walenczyk will join Allegheny Energy Inc. May 1 as senior vicepresident and chief financial officer, replacing Michael P. Morrell, who was appointed president of Allegheny Energy Supply Co. earlier this year. Walenczyk was most recently financial vice president with PSEG Energy Holdings Inc.Deaths
George L. Ingalls, a New York Power Authority trustee for 23 years until his retirement in 1990, died Tuesday at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton. He was 86. Ingalls was appointed to the board by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller in 1967, and his 23 years as an NYPA trustee -- 17 years as vice chairman --is a record. His lengthy tenure was recognized in 1991 when the powerhouse at the Power Authority's Blenheim-Gilboa pumped storage power project in Schoharie County was named for him.
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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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