News
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
Reliant Plant in Florida To Begin Operations
LCG, Jan. 16, 2002--A gas- and oil-fired generating facility in Florida, the Osceola Peaking Plant, is undergoing testing before it begins to sell its output.Reliant Resources, Incorporated, a subsidiary of Reliant Energy, recently merged with Orion Power, resulting in a combined capacity of 21,000 megawatts, when the 465-megawatt Osceola plant is included.Two-thirds of the plant's generation is under contract to the rural electric cooperative, Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc., while the rest is to be sold to the grid. The facility, near Holopaw, Fla., consists of three 155-megawatt combustion turbines.
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