ERCOT will continue its reliability must-run agreement with NRG Energy’s Greens Bayou Unit 5 after a solicitation produced no viable alternatives.

The ERCOT Board of Directors is looking to stakeholders to improve its reliability-must-run (RMR) practices, as the grid operator sees real-time prices fall 26% in the first half of 2016.

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

ERCOT is soliciting must-run alternatives  to the reliability-must-run agreement it recently extended to NRG’s Greens Bayou Unit 5.

The ERCOT Board of Directors approved extending an RMR contract with NRG Energy for its Greens Bayou Unit 5 plant in the Houston area.

ERCOT said it has executed a reliability-must-run agreement to keep NRG's Greens Bayou 371-MW natural gas-fired generator available through September.

FERC told NYISO that proposed changes to its rules for reliability-must-run generators were inconsistent with Order 1000 and improperly delegated authority.

The New York PSC said FERC should reject the proposal made by NRG Energy to keep the 380-MW Huntley plant in Tonawanda operating.

Transmission upgrades dominated activity in the NYISO footprint in 2015 and promise to occupy headlines in 2016.

NRG said that it may only need to continue operating one of the two units at the Huntley plant.