November 5, 2024

ERCOT

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas manages the flow of electric power to about 90 percent of the state’s electric load. The nonprofit independent system operator is governed by a board of directors and is subject to oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature.
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ERCOT Briefs: Week of July 19, 2021
ERCOT has filed to finance $2.9 billion in market debt stemming from high-priced market transactions during February’s devastating winter storm.
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Microgrids Face Cost, Valuation Challenges
“Public purpose” microgrids are struggling because of high costs and the lack of a widely accepted resilience metric, speakers told NARUC.
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Overheard at NARUC Summer Policy Summit 2021
More than 600 people attended the NARUC Summer Policy Summit in person and hundreds more watched via livestream.
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ACORE Panelists: Resilient Tx Needed for Severe Weather
Major transmission construction will help the grid tolerate increasingly severe weather, panelists said at a recent ACORE webinar.
Texas Admin Monitor
Texas Public Utility Commission Briefs: July 15, 2021
Texas PUC staff and ERCOT staff have been "living on coffee and anger" as they work together to redesign the state's deregulated market.
Texas Senate Business & Commerce Committee
ERCOT Issues ‘Roadmap to Grid Reliability’
ERCOT has released a 60-point roadmap designed to improve the Texas Interconnection’s reliability and resource adequacy.
Texas Admin Monitor
PUC Debates Answers to ERCOT’s Reliability Issues
The Texas Public Utility Commission’s rookie electric utility regulators last week stood in front of the proverbial fire hose, wielded by ERCOT staff, market participants and the grid’s Independent Market Monitor, as they try to get a grip on how best to respond to February’s disastrous winter storm. In what the PUC billed as the …
ERCOT
ERCOT Stakeholders Sign Off on More Ancillary Services
ERCOT stakeholders approved a binding document revision that codifies the grid operator’s plans to deploy more operating reserves to ensure summer readiness.
Texas PUC
Texas PUC Briefs: June 24, 2021
The Texas PUC has ordered ERCOT to waive its protocols and disclose generator-outage data three days after an outage, rather than the standard 60 days.
LCRA
ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee Briefs: June 23, 2021
ERCOT stakeholders have endorsed the first system changes addressing system changes stemming from the winter weather that almost shut down the Texas grid.

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