Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)
Despite political pressure, Texas regulators have approved a pair of ERCOT requests to finance $2.9 billion in market debt incurred during the winter storm.
Three generating units with 226 MW of capacity, previously mothballed on a seasonal basis, are returning to year-round service in the ERCOT market.
There's a new focus on winter weather in the Texas electricity market after February's winter storm drove the ERCOT grid to the brink of collapse.
ERCOT stakeholders endorsed several protocol changes and associated changes related to ERS service and load-resource participation in non-spinning reserves.
The Texas PUC exercised its newfound authority to bypass ERCOT’s stakeholder process and direct utilities to add a second circuit to an existing line.
The Texas PUC's Peter Lake and ERCOT's Brad Jones kicked off the GCPA's virtual Fall Conference, originally scheduled to have been an in-person event.
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FERC and NERC staff shared their preliminary findings and recommendations on the February winter storm that led to unprecedented outages in Texas.
The ERCOT Board Selection Committee hired an executive search firm to find 8 independent directors to sit on the grid operator’s reconstituted governing board.
One of Texas' leading energy experts had a dose of reality for state regulators working on a new design for the ERCOT market.
ERCOT is recommending a 351-mile, 345-kV transmission line in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, a region identified as in urgent need of more capacity.
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