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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
Covanta Energy Plans to Develop Energy-from-Waste Plant in Wales
LCG, January 30, 2009--Covanta Energy announced that it plans to construct a 70-MW power plant in Merthyr, Wales that will used waste as fuel. The target date for operations to begin is 2014.
The project, Brig y Cwm, will consume approximately 825,000 tons of waste per year. The estimated cost of the plant is approximately $570 million, and the project will be financed, built, owned and operated by Covanta Energy.
Covanta Energy is expanding its investments in biomass projects across the United States. In December 2008, Covanta announced that it had completed its acquisition of two biomass energy facilities in Maine. The two facilities, located in West Enfield and Jonesboro, have a combined capacity of 49 MW.
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