ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee assigned two subcommittees to consider responses to discrepancies in day-ahead market make-whole payments.

ERCOT staff told the Technical Advisory Committee it is preparing a proposal to map registered distributed generation units and a white paper on DER.

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.

ERCOT told its Technical Advisory Committee that it has drafted a revision to its planning guide requiring energy developers to notify the Department of Defense of any projects near military installations.

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

Wind energy is quickly becoming a dominant force in ERCOT’s resource mix, and the grid operator is making changes to address it.

The ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee held an email vote to unanimously approve a nodal operating guide revision request.

ERCOT members voted down the ISO’s attempt to salvage a revision request that would have replaced several ancillary services with new products.

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee  continued the debate over who should be responsible for Texas’ largely unused smart meter monitoring website.