ERCOT officials issued their first voluntary conservation call of the year Tuesday as demand peaked within less than 1 GW of the RTO's peak-demand record during an oppressive heat wave.

Austin Energy has brought back former ERCOT CEO and city staffer Bob Kahn as its general manager.

ERCOT staff says that despite “not insignificant” forced outages during the December winter storm, it set a new winter demand record and supported reliability.

ERCOT director Zin Smati resigned after renewable operator Boralex, where he is also a director, acquired ownership in Texas wind farms.

ERCOT’s board has stripped away its corporate members’ right to vote on future changes to the bylaws, rejecting stakeholders’ alternative recommendation.

ERCOT stakeholders have submitted comments to proposed bylaw changes that have been sitting with the Board of Directors since September.

ERCOT has approved a pilot project where Texas energy providers can aggregate their customers’ small DERs and sell the extra energy back to the grid.

With ERCOT’s board having asserted itself as the new sheriff in town, its stakeholders are settling themselves to a lesser role.

ERCOT’s Board of Directors approved a protocol change that eliminated unsecured credit.

ERCOT’s Board of Directors unanimously approved a nodal protocol revision request that will lower unsecured credit limits from $50 million to $30 million.