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ERCOT Announces Organizational Changes to Promote Grid Reliability, Rapid Demand Growth, and Innovation

LCG, December 12, 2025--Today, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) announced strategic organizational changes designed to accelerate innovation, strengthen grid reliability, and support the unprecedented growth in the demand for electricity across Texas. To meet these objectives, ERCOT created two new organizations: Interconnection and Grid Analysis, and Enterprise Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The two organizations will formally launch in January 2026.

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NextEra Energy Resources and Basin Electric Power Cooperative Announce MOU to Develop 1,450-MW Natural Gas-fired Power Plant in North Dakota

LCG, December 8, 2025--Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NextEra) today announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore the joint development of the River Run Energy Center, a new combined-cycle natural gas-fueled generation facility in Basin Electric's North Dakota service territory. The proposed facility will have a planned capacity of approximately 1,450 MW.

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NRG Takes 50 Percent Interest In Conoco Power Project

LCG, Nov. 27, 2000--Conoco Global Power, a power plant developer subsidiary of oil company Conoco Inc., said this morning that NRG Energy Inc. would take a 50 percent interest in a Texas cogeneration plant under development.

NRG will buy into Conoco's 420 megawatt natural gas-fueled SRW Cogeneration project now under construction at the Sabine River Works pertrochemical facility owned by DuPont Co. near Orange, Texas.

Alan Williams, a vice president of NRG South Central Generating, said "The Sabine River Works project offers us an opportunity to diversify into gas-fired generation, the most efficient power generation available."

Electricity and all the steam generated by the power plant will be sold to the DuPont SabineRiver Works plant. Electricity also will be sold to PG&E Energy Trading - Power, a subsidiaryof PG&E National Energy Group. Additional electricity will be sold on the regional wholesale market.

Bechtel Energy Corp. is about halfway through building the cogenerator, according to Conoco, and the facility should begin commercial operation next summer.

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