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July 3, 2024

Winter Storm Uri

SPP
SPP Board of Directors/Members Committee Briefs: Oct. 26, 2021
SPP’s Board of Directors approved the RTO’s third competitive transmission project, awarding a 345-kV line’s construction to NextEra Energy Transmission.
MISO
MISO Warns of January Emergency Procedures
A MISO emergency declaration is almost a certainty in January if harsh weather meets unforeseen generation outages.
Texas PUC
Texas PUC Nears Market Redesign’s Finish Line
Texas regulators accelerate their efforts to redesign the ERCOT market with a strawman proposal as they rush to meet a self-imposed December deadline.
Southern Power
ERCOT Mothballed Resources Return to Year-round Ops
Three generating units with 226 MW of capacity, previously mothballed on a seasonal basis, are returning to year-round service in the ERCOT market.
Entergy
Texas Market Taking Winterization Seriously this Time
There's a new focus on winter weather in the Texas electricity market after February's winter storm drove the ERCOT grid to the brink of collapse.
ERCOT
ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee Briefs: Sept. 29, 2021
ERCOT stakeholders endorsed several protocol changes and associated changes related to ERS service and load-resource participation in non-spinning reserves.
Pattern Energy
Texas PUC Considers Adding Grid Interconnections
Responding to February’s devastating winter storm, Texas regulators consider ways to add ties to neighboring grids without triggering FERC oversight.
Texas Admin Monitor
PUC Workshop Takes First Stab at Market Changes
Texas regulators discussed with ERCOT market participants potential changes to an energy market that has been virtually untouched for almost 20 years.
Matthew T. Rader, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
FERC Approves Cold Weather Standards
FERC approved NERC's proposed cold weather reliability standards in an order that recognized more standards would likely be necessary in the future.
Texas RE
Texas RE Board of Trustees Briefs: Aug. 18, 2021
A joint inquiry on the devastating effects of Winter Storm Uri will “clearly” call for “reforms in multiple areas,” NERC CEO Jim Robb said.

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