Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT)
The Infocast Texas Clean Energy Summit attracted several hundred developers, asset owners, financiers, investors and ERCOT stakeholders to discuss the booming opportunities and looming challenges in today’s renewables environment.
Texas regulators and ERCOT stakeholders are celebrating a year-long study of aggregated distributed energy resources that has resulted in two virtual power plants qualified and able to provide dispatchable power to the state’s grid.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the PUC to study how to position the state "as the national leader on advanced nuclear energy."
Texas regulators have approved ERCOT’s proposed modifications to the operating reserve demand curve that are designed to retain and attract dispatchable generation.
The Texas Public Utility Commission unanimously approved ERCOT’s request to nearly double compensation for its independent directors, the board’s first increase since 2012.
Former EIA Administrator Linda Capuano has been appointed to ERCOT's Board of Directors.
ERCOT staff are reviewing the spate of electric-related legislation that was recently passed by Texas lawmakers.
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday narrowly affirmed ERCOT’s sovereign immunity, granting it protection against fraud claims and allegations of overpricing, and asserted the Public Utility Commission’s jurisdiction over the grid operator in a pair of rulings.
During its first open meeting since the recently concluded legislative session, the Public Utility Commission of Texas discussed its next steps in changing the ERCOT market.
A Texas appeals court has reversed a Public Utility Commission’s scarcity-pricing order and remanded it back to the PUC for further proceedings.
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