In its State of the Market report, ERCOT's Market Monitor said the grid operator's conservative operations approach undermines the energy-only market’s design.

ERCOT stakeholders declined to consider staff’s appeal of a tabled rule change that would create a process allowing staff to schedule planned outages.

ERCOT’s conservative use of reliability unit commitments to procure standby reserves since last year’s winter storm is under question.

ERCOT stakeholders have tabled for a month a discussion on a proposal that would reduce the offer floor for RUCs and remove opt-out provisions.

ERCOT market participants again expressed their concerns with potential changes to the stakeholder process following discussions during board meetings.

ERCOT staff says they plan to continue in 2022 their conservative operations approach of setting aside additional reserves by procuring ancillary services.

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.

ERCOT stakeholders endorsed a final batch of key principles that will guide the Texas grid operator’s implementation of real-time co-optimization.

Both ISO-NE's external and internal market monitors endorsed major portions of the RTO’s Energy Security Improvements plan.

ERCOT's staff on Wednesday briefed the Technical Advisory Committee on three key principles of real-time co-optimization.