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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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Missouri Plant Expands by 100 Megawatts

LCG, Apr. 25, 2003--Two peaking units were declared operational at the Empire Energy Center this week, bring an additional 100 megawatts online in southwest Missouri.

The plant manager, Joe Simmons said of the two gas-fired Pratt & Whitney FT8 units that they "are our most efficient simple-cycle units and will give us significant flexibility in our operating model." The Empire District Electric Company, an investor-owned utility with service territory in southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas, northeast Oklahoma, and northwest Arkansas, owns the plant.

The technology of the FT8 is based on that found in the similar JT8D turbine, which is used in aircraft. The overall cost of installation for Units 3 and 4, with ground-breaking having taken place July 31, 2002, was put at approximately $55 million.
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