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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Press Release
LCG Consulting Launches a New Website
Los Altos, Ca – May 1, 2006 – LCG Consulting is pleased to announce the launch of its new website: www.EnergyOnline.com. While offering many of the same features and content as that of it its predecessor, the new site also includes a number of additional pages, data, reports and an entirely new look and feel.
Thanks to the efforts of a remarkable development team, the energyonline.com site now utilizes extremely flexible technologies, allowing for the addition of relevant company and industry information “on the fly.” Industry data and reports revolve around the deregulated energy markets and now include real-time market data.
LCG Consulting, based in Los Altos, California with offices in Paris, France, is a research and development organization that has been actively involved in supplying specialized software and consulting services for planning, operations and scheduling in the Power and Natural Gas domains. Founded and incorporated in California in 1983, LCG has been a widely recognized leader in integrated energy studies and a pioneer in modeling energy markets. Our clients include a wide range of public and private electric and gas utilities, power marketers, federal and state agencies, various commissions and regulatory bodies, and a number of research institutions.
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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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