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
PG&E Corp. Can Wait on Repayment
LCG, August 5, 2002-Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation, parent company to the California PG&E utility, announced that it has been given waivers by some of its lenders.Early today, Moody's Investors Service brought the corporation's rating down to "junk," and lenders to the PG&E utility said that repayment of major loans would be postponed through August 16 as long as the merchant energy affiliate PG&E National Energy Group has an investment-grade credit rating.PG&E Corporation has some $1.3 billion in loans from several sources, including General Electric Capital Corporation and Lehman Commercial Paper.The corporation has announced that it finds itself capable of meeting its loan requirements of the next year.
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