The ERCOT Board of Directors rejected an appeal by small public power distributors seeking a proposed change to the definition of transmission owners.

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee approved staff’s recommendation to remove reliability unit commitment capacity from the grid operator’s ORDC.

Texas Public Utility Commissioner Brandy Marquez on Thursday quietly resigned, effective April 2. The announcement followed the PUCT open meeting

Infocast’s annual ERCOT Market Summit once again featured panel discussions on market reform, grid resiliency and resource adequacy.

The Texas PUC postponed until March a decision on whether to remove reliability unit commitments from ERCOT’s operating reserve demand curve.

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee asked its Wholesale Market Subcommittee to determine what went wrong during two recent market events.

The ERCOT energy-only market may not be broken, but stakeholders will discuss some fine-tuning at a PUCT workshop this week.

The ERCOT Board of Directors discussed a number of year-end reports, including the Market Monitor's and CEO Bill Magness'.

ERCOT reliability unit commitment activity increased more than three-fold in 2016, staff said at the Technical Advisory Committee meeting last week.

Southwest Power Pool CEO Nick Brown said during his president’s report that cybersecurity issues will be SPP's biggest challenge in 2017.