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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
Tractebel Building 1,225 Megawatts in 2 U.S. Projects
LCG, Aug. 24, 2001--The North American power project development subsidiary of Belgian utility Tractebel said yesterday that it has begun construction on two U.S. natural gas-fired merchant power plants totaling 1,225 megawatts of electricity generating capacity.Tractebel Project Development Inc. said it will build a 505 megawatt facility at Chehalis, Wash. at a cost of $360 million. The plant, located midway between Portland, Ore. and Seattle, is scheduled to commence commercial operation in late 2003, when it will begin selling its output into the Northwest Power Pool.The company will also build a $350 million, 720 megawatt power plant in Wise County, Texas, northwest of Dallas, and will serve the growing demands of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It too will be completed in late 2003, when it will start pushing power into the North Texas regional electricity market."The Chehalis and Wise County electric generation projects are important additions to Tractebel'sNorth American power portfolio. Once built, these state-of-the-art facilities will provide clean andreliable energy at competitive prices in regions where the energy is most critically needed," saidWilliam P. Utt, chief executive of Tractebel North America Inc.Both plants are being built by Reading, Pa.-based Parsons Energy and Chemicals Group Inc. under engineering, procurement, construction contracts.
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