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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
No Bias Found in Yucca Mountain Nuke Review
LCG, April 26, 2001Charges of "bias" levied against an evaluation of the Yucca Mountain, Nev., nuclear waste repository by Sen. Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, have no basis, the Department of Energy's Office of the Inspector General said."This report has raised the issue of potential bias in the study of the suitability of Yucca Mountain and has put the DOE and their contractors on notice that we are watching very, very carefully," said Reid.The 14-page report from DOE Inspector General Gregory Freeman said "We could not substantiate the concern that bias compromised the integrity of the site evaluation process, or that the (DOE) or its contractors considered a formal or informal strategy for supporting the site characterization recommendation in violation of the law."Reid contended that the report "acknowledged that the overview contained statements which were biased in favor of the proposed repository," a point Freeman's report conceded.The statements were part of a working draft of the Site Recommendation Consideration Report that was never intended for release. The statements "could be viewed as suggesting a premature conclusion regarding the suitability of Yucca Mountain," the Inspector General noted.Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said the DOE objected to those statements during its own review of the documents and those statements were removed from subsequent drafts. "We will all remain vigilant in ensuring that we perform our work without any preconceived opinions or bias," Abraham wrote. "We must ensure that our work does not even raise the perception of possible bias."Reid, and other members of the Nevada congressional delegation, have been resolute in their opposition to the use of Yucca Mountain, or anyplace else in their state, as a permanent repository for spent fuel from the nation's nuclear power plants.
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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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