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.
ERCOT has told Texas regulators that it has reached an agreement with LifeCycle Power that clears the way for 15 mobile generators to be relocated from Houston to San Antonio to provide additional capacity.
ERCOT stakeholders advanced a protocol change that provides longer-duration ancillary services and state-of-charge parameters, among several other voting items, during their last TAC meeting.
The Texas Public Utility Commission has begun accepting applications for up to $1 billion in grants under one of the four Texas Energy Fund programs it administers.
ERCOT's blossoming clean energy sector has been threatened by bills that would dampen its growth and future investment, but many of those laws appear to have fallen by the wayside in the Texas legislature's closing days.
Rapid growth in battery energy storage systems in ERCOT has resulted in a “significantly lower” probability for an energy emergency alert this summer, according to the Texas Reliability Entity.
ICF International is projecting another rise in the rate of demand growth as more data centers seek to plug into the grid in the coming years, with a 25% increasefrom 2023 levels by 2030 and 78% by 2050.
Texas regulators have declined ERCOT’s request for an exemption from including certain loads without interconnection agreements in its forecasts until the grid operator fine tunes its methodology.
Texas Reliability Entity CEO Jim Albright sees similarities between the issues facing the U.S. and European grid and hopes to learn from the recent Iberian Peninsula outage.
