Texas regulators discussed with ERCOT market participants potential changes to an energy market that has been virtually untouched for almost 20 years.

The Texas PUC began hearings over ERCOT's request for a pair of debt-obligation orders to finance $2.9 billion incurred during the February winter storm.

Texas regulators are grappling with writing weather preparedness measures for generators and transmission service providers as required by state law.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appointed ICF Consulting's Jimmy Glotfelty as the fourth commissioner on the previously three-member Public Utility Commission.

ERCOT told the Texas PUC that it will change its outage-request procedures to avoid having too much generation offline at one time.

Ex-ERCOT director Peter Cramton still has high hopes for the Texas grid operator, which he says is still 'the best market in the world.'

ERCOT has filed to finance $2.9 billion in market debt stemming from high-priced market transactions during February’s devastating winter storm.

Texas PUC staff and ERCOT staff have been "living on coffee and anger" as they work together to redesign the state's deregulated market.

ERCOT has released a 60-point roadmap designed to improve the Texas Interconnection’s reliability and resource adequacy.

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 …

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