ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee has canceled Wednesday’s scheduled workshop to discuss its future membership and interaction with the incoming Board of Directors.

Chair Clif Lange, of South Texas Electric Cooperative, and Vice Chair Eric Blakey, with Just Energy, said in an email to stakeholders Monday that they decided to cancel the workshop “given feedback from multiple parties and after much consideration.”

The workshop was to be a follow-up to the committee’s testy July meeting, when members pushed back against interim CEO Brad Jones’ proposal to convert the committee into one “comprised of senior-level members from each ERCOT member organization.” (See “Members Push Back Against Revamped TAC Structure, Conservative Ops,” ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee Briefs: July 28, 2021.)

The TAC currently has 30 members comprising primarily subject-matter experts representing six different market segments. Some members argued last month that adding officer-level representatives would only slow the committee’s work down. Jones responded by saying state lawmakers have lost confidence in ERCOT’s market participant-driven processes.

“If you don’t think TAC is in the crosshairs, you’re not paying close attention,” Jones said during the July 28 meeting.

Lange and Blakey told members they will defer discussion of the committee’s structure until the new board and/or the Texas Public Utility Commission “initiate[s] discussions on it.”