ERCOT’s Board of Directors elected newcomer Sally Talberg to a three-year term as its chair and six-year veteran Peter Cramton as its vice chair.

Faced with varying waves of energy storage resources, grid operators are taking steps to accommodate devices sitting in their interconnection queues.

Staff told the ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee that it will be asked next month to sunset the RTC Task Force and instead focus on the Passport Program.

NRG Energy plans to indefinitely mothball its gas-fired Petra Nova Power generating unit, a change from its earlier plan to seasonally sideline the plant.

Texas regulators denied complaints by ERCOT market participants and rejected an administrative law judge’s decision on the ISO’s price-correction practices.

With almost 31 GW of wind capacity, Texas has more wind resources than any other state and is on track to stake out similar leadership in solar energy.

The Texas PUC revisited ERCOT market repricing issues, named COO Thomas Gleeson executive director and doled out $307,500 in administrative penalties.

ERCOT said that generation owners have added 5.6 GW of summer-rated capacity for 2021, which includes more than 3 GW of utility-scale solar.

The ERCOT Board of Directors revised its consent agenda, confirmed TAC representatives & discussed its record installation of solar generation.

Vistra said it would retire the Coleto Creek plant no later than 2027 because it would be too expensive to comply with latest EPA rules.