To help readers better understand ERCOT, the OCSC has released Coming To Terms with ERCOT: A Glossary and Primer. ________________________________________________ ERCOT, also known as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, is the non-profit corporation that...
Power sector weatherization is required under new omnibus legislation adopted in response to February’s statewide outages. ________________________________________________ Although still incomplete, legislatively mandated weatherization rules for Texas generators and...
Some critical natural gas units participated in a program allowing for electricity to be cut to them during the outages, according to research team. This would have made matters worse. ________________________________________________ Although generation technologies...
ERCOT released the plan in response to a letter from Gov. Abbott that included directives relating to the state’s primary power grid and energy market. ________________________________________________ Increasing the amount of electric power generation and purchasing...
The new data sets shed new light on ERCOT’s surprising June 14-18 call for energy conservation that it issued statewide. ________________________________________________ Many of the same plants that failed during the Winter Storm Uri freeze in February likewise...
The amended rule relates to a cap on the price for which generators can offer power into the ERCOT-administered market. ________________________________________________ In response to the financial fallout following Winter Storm Uri, Texas regulators last week...
