Electric utilities Vistra, Constellation jump after grid operator power auction
** Shares of independent power producers Vistra VST.N and Constellation Energy CEG.O jump premarket after PJM power auction results yielded sharply higher prices
** VST up 12% at $77.60, while CEG rises 10.6% to $186.49; another independent electric utility Talen TLN.O was trading with low premarket volume
** An annual power market auction by the largest U.S. electrical grid operator resulted in prices more than 800% higher than last year as supply dwindled and demand increased
** Separately, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves Vistra's request to extend the operating license of its Comanche Peak nuclear plant in Texas by another two decades
** VST is up ~80 YTD, third best performing stock on the S&P 500 .SPX after AI beneficiaries Super Micro SMCI.O and Nvidia NVDA.O which have more than doubled in value
** CEG up 44% so far in 2024, while TLN up 73% in the same period
Reporting by Medha Singh
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