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November 26, 2024

ERCOT

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas manages the flow of electric power to about 90 percent of the state’s electric load. The nonprofit independent system operator is governed by a board of directors and is subject to oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature.
Texas Admin Monitor
Texas Public Utility Commission Briefs: July 15, 2021
Texas PUC staff and ERCOT staff have been "living on coffee and anger" as they work together to redesign the state's deregulated market.
Texas Senate Business & Commerce Committee
ERCOT Issues ‘Roadmap to Grid Reliability’
ERCOT has released a 60-point roadmap designed to improve the Texas Interconnection’s reliability and resource adequacy.
Texas Admin Monitor
PUC Debates Answers to ERCOT’s Reliability Issues
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 …
ERCOT
ERCOT Stakeholders Sign Off on More Ancillary Services
ERCOT stakeholders approved a binding document revision that codifies the grid operator’s plans to deploy more operating reserves to ensure summer readiness.
Texas PUC
Texas PUC Briefs: June 24, 2021
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.
LCRA
ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee Briefs: June 23, 2021
ERCOT stakeholders have endorsed the first system changes addressing system changes stemming from the winter weather that almost shut down the Texas grid.
Texas PUC
Texans’ Conservation Keeps ERCOT Grid Stable
Texans responding to ERCOT's call for conservation helped the embattled grid operator survive another week of tight conditions.
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Abbott Taps OPUC’s Cobos to Fill out PUC
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed the OPUC's Lori Cobos to the Public Utility Commission, filling out the current commission.
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Fixing the Texas Grid – Maybe
ERCOT insiders at ACORE's Finance Forum spoke candidly on the causes and lessons learned from Texas' February outages.
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Generation Outages Force ERCOT Conservation Alert
ERCOT asked for conservation measures through Friday as summer heat and 12.2 GW of forced outages erased whatever slim reserve margin it had.

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