Texas RE's site visits will continue as it waits for the NERC cold-weather standards to become requirements.

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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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.

MISO's quarterly board meeting yielded a heads-up on future spending increases stemming from expensive market and transmission upgrades the RTO is facing.​​​​

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed the OPUC's Lori Cobos to the Public Utility Commission, filling out the current commission.

ERCOT insiders at ACORE's Finance Forum spoke candidly on the causes and lessons learned from Texas' February outages.

ERCOT asked for conservation measures through Friday as summer heat and 12.2 GW of forced outages erased whatever slim reserve margin it had.

February’s winter storm, which threw Texas and much of the Midwest into a deep freeze, remains a hot topic as seen at recent industry conferences.