ERCOT 2017 goals include accomodating distributed generation, enhanced ancillary services and improved reliability-must-run practices.

Energy storage won’t eliminate the need for RMR generators - the need to pay unprofitable generators to continue operating for grid support.

The ERCOT Board of Directors last week approved three rule changes related to its reliability-must-run processes.

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee passed three nodal protocol revision requests to improve the ISO’s reliability-must-run procedures.

ERCOT will continue its reliability must-run agreement with NRG Energy’s Greens Bayou Unit 5 after a solicitation produced no viable alternatives.

The ERCOT Board of Directors is looking to stakeholders to improve its reliability-must-run (RMR) practices, as the grid operator sees real-time prices fall 26% in the first half of 2016.

The ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee rejected a request to allow economic dispatch of RMR units over the objections of the ISO’s  Monitor.

ERCOT is soliciting must-run alternatives  to the reliability-must-run agreement it recently extended to NRG’s Greens Bayou Unit 5.

The ERCOT Board of Directors approved extending an RMR contract with NRG Energy for its Greens Bayou Unit 5 plant in the Houston area.

ERCOT said it has executed a reliability-must-run agreement to keep NRG's Greens Bayou 371-MW natural gas-fired generator available through September.