by R.A. Dyer | Oct 16, 2025 | Generation
The Texas Energy Fund is a $10 billion subsidy program created by the Texas Legislature to help finance the development of dispatchable generation. State lawmakers established the program in the aftermath of Winter Storm Uri that led to statewide outages....
by OCSC | Feb 5, 2024 | Blog, ERCOT, Generation
During a January 30 hearing, the state’s highest court heard oral arguments from lawyers for the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Calpine Corp., and Luminant. The implications of the lawsuit are immense. ________________________________________________ A lawsuit...
by OCSC | Sep 14, 2020 | Blog, ERCOT, Generation, Utility News
A company error led to a massive wholesale power price spike. ________________________________________________ A multi-million-dollar regulatory complaint against ERCOT and relating to a massive wholesale power price spike has been dismissed by Texas...
by OCSC | Aug 14, 2019 | Blog, Generation
More typically, real-time prices remain below $30 and only on two other occasions in grid history have they reached the $9,000 cap. Real-time energy prices in ERCOT surged to the $9,000-megawatt-hour cap on Tuesday, the result of triple-digit temperatures...
by OCSC | Oct 12, 2017 | Blog
You flip a switch, your lights come on. The more power you use, the bigger your bill. It sounds simple and it is — and yet just below the surface lurks a tangle of engineering constraints, big-moneyed interests and a fantastically complex wholesale power market. And...
