ERCOT registered a new all-time demand peak of 74.5 GW as Texas continued to bake in heat extreme even for the Lone Star State.

The Texas Public Utility Commission asked for more information on eight small municipal utilities’ appeal of ERCOT’s definition of transmission operator.

Summer has been late to Texas, but it is quickly making up it with triple-digit temperatures that are leading to four-figure prices in the ERCOT market.

ERCOT staff have laid out a plan to work with stakeholders in addressing a May pricing event that has led to a complaint filed with the Texas PUC.

NRG Energy’s profits jumped sharply in the second quarter, boosted by a surge in earnings for the company’s power generation division.

ERCOT stakeholders endorsed the first batch of key principles that will lay the foundation for implementation of real-time co-optimization in the market.

ERCOT asked Texas regulators to dismiss a complaint by Aspire Commodities seeking to make generators repay the market an estimated $18 million.

The Texas PUC postponed action on improvements to ERCOT’s day-ahead market, citing potential delays to implementing real-time co-optimization.

ERCOT staff and stakeholders are preparing to bring a first set of real-time co-optimization policy principles to the Technical Advisory Committee.

Columnist Steve Huntoon criticizes a recent NRDC op-ed that denounces PJM for seemingly favoring natural gas-fired plants over renewable resources.