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

“Public purpose” microgrids are struggling because of high costs and the lack of a widely accepted resilience metric, speakers told NARUC.

More than 600 people attended the NARUC Summer Policy Summit in person and hundreds more watched via livestream.

Major transmission construction will help the grid tolerate increasingly severe weather, panelists said at a recent ACORE webinar.

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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ERCOT stakeholders approved a binding document revision that codifies the grid operator’s plans to deploy more operating reserves to ensure summer readiness.

The Texas PUC has ordered ERCOT to waive its protocols and disclose generator-outage data three days after an outage, rather than the standard 60 days.

ERCOT stakeholders have endorsed the first system changes addressing system changes stemming from the winter weather that almost shut down the Texas grid.