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
PJM Approves Transmission Upgrades
LCG, October 8, 2002-Transmission operator PJM Interconnection LLC has authorized over $725 million in upgrades to the Mid-Atlantic region's electricity transmission system. PJM's Independent Board passed the upgrades last week, and the Board of Directors approved the upgrades yesterday.In coming to this decision, officials considered proposed projects and opinions from energy companies, transmission owners, and state regulatory bodies.The upgrades are said to serve 39 new power plants, which will provide an additional capacity of nearly 8,600 MW.PJM Interconnection is a non-stock company responsible for electricity grid reliability in the Mid-Atlantic region, including Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.
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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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