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LCG, November 2, 2026--Vistra Corp. announced on October 30 that, following receipt of all required regulatory approvals, it has completed the acquisition of Cogentrix Energy from funds managed by Quantum Capital Group. The acquisition consists of 10 natural gas-fired power generation facilities totaling nearly 5,500 MW of capacity. The addition of Cogentrix's facilities to Vistra's existing generation portfolio raises Vistra's U.S. generation portfolio to nearly 50,000 MW.
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LCG, October 23, 2026--INNIO N.V. yesterday announced a 620 MW follow-on order from a developer and operator of mega-scale data center campuses in the United States. Together with the customer's 1.1 GW order announced previously in July, the new order brings cumulative orders from the customer to approximately 1.72 GW this year.
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Press Release
EIA Publishes Regional Electricity Supply and Pricing Forecasts Using UPLAN Model
LCG, August 13, 2019--The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced that it is revising the presentation and modeling of its forecasts for electricity supply and market hub pricing to better reflect current electricity markets and system operations in the U.S. Beginning with the August 2019 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the new forecasting approach models electricity markets using the UPLAN production cost optimization software developed by LCG Consulting. EIA uses the solution results provided by this proprietary model to develop the STEO forecasts of monthly electricity generation, fuel consumption, and wholesale prices.
The new forecasts will generally correspond to electric power sector generation and fuel consumption for 12 electric supply regions, rather than using state boundaries that frequently do not correspond to market boundaries. The new electricity supply regions in the STEO better reflect how electricity is produced in balancing authority dispatch areas and wholesale markets. EIA is also beginning to forecast average peak-period wholesale electricity prices for the market hubs in the STEO electricity supply regions.
To incorporate the UPLAN model into the STEO, EIA also redesigned its Regional Short-Term Energy Model (RSTEM), which consists of an integrated system of equations and identities that link the various components of the U.S. energy industry together. RSTEM consists of submodules for each energy source (crude oil, electricity, coal, etc.) and industry function (production, demand, prices, etc.). The UPLAN model uses input data assumptions that are derived from EIA historical data sources and from other modules with RSTEM, along with data provided by LCG. The electricity supply modules within RSTEM use information from the UPLAN model solution output to create the published STEO electricity forecasts.
The August 2019 STEO may be accessed at the following site:
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/special/supplements/2019/2019_sp_01.pdf
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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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