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August 2, 2024

Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

Overheard at the Mid-America Regulatory Conference
The Mid-America Regulatory Conference drew an above-capacity assembly of public utility regulators, legal counsel and other industry insiders.
ERCOT TAC Cancels June Meeting, to Hold Email Vote
ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee has canceled its June meeting because of a lack of voting items.
ERCOT BoD Briefs: June 13, 2017
The ERCOT board learned that Lubbock Power & Light’s potential transition from SPP could result in as much as $77 million in increased production costs.
ETT Updates ERCOT on Extended Outages
Electric Transmission Texas told ERCOT participants that it is working with the ISO to minimize the effects of a project to repair transmission structures.
ERCOT Monitor: Optimizing Energy, A/S Top Priority
Potomac Economics’ David Patton told ERCOT’s Board of Directors that there’s still room to optimize energy and ancillary services.
FERC: US Resource Adequacy Good for Hot Summer
Planning reserve margins are expected to be adequate for a hotter-than-normal summer, FERC said in its annual summer reliability report.
ERCOT Board Approves West Texas Transmission Project
ERCOT’s Board of Directors approved the Far West Texas transmission project, which will result in the construction of two 345-kV lines southwest of Odessa.
Texas PUC Again Rejects NextEra’s Oncor Bid
The PUCT rejected NextEra Energy’s attempt to acquire Oncor, rebuffing a request to rehear a previous decision denying the proposed $18.7 billion deal.
ERCOT Briefs
ERCOT’s wholesale market performed “competitively” in 2016, the ISO’s Independent Market Monitor said in its annual State of the Market report.
ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee Briefs
ERCOT's Cheryl Mele alerted the TAC to an incident where a vendor’s issue-tracking system allowed its software clients to view tickets from other clients.

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