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March 22, 2021
Vistra Proposes Increasing LCAP To Greater Of $4,500/MWh Or 50x Fuel Index For Rest Of 2021
In comments at the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Texas Industrial Energy Consumers (TIEC) has proposed replacing the low system-wide offer cap (LCAP) in ERCOT with an event-specific circuit breaker mechanism
March 15, 2021
Texas State Rep. Lyle Larson has introduced a bill, HB 4323, to require development of a plan for re-regulation the electric industry
March 9, 2021
ERCOT said in a market notice that the release date for the Final Spring and Preliminary Summer "Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy" (SARA) reports has been changed from March 11 to March 25, 2021.
March 5, 2021
Vistra Corp. has shared with Texas lawmakers, "ideas that should be considered to address the impacts of the mid-February storm."
March 5, 2021
During today's open meeting, in response to a public comment about the recent weather event and outages, Texas PUC Chairman Arthur C. D'Andrea said that his "current view" is that, "a capacity market would not have helped us here."
March 2, 2021
ERCOT's CEO Bill Magness in a letter to the leadership of ERCOT's Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) presented ERCOT's initial list of priority topics that ought to be addressed in the wake of the recent weather event, and creditworthiness issues are among the listed priorities.
February 23, 2021
Texas Governor Greg Abbott will deliver a televised statewide address on Wednesday, February 24th at 6:02 PM CT.
February 22, 2021
Texas Bill Would Require PUC To Obtain "Emergency Reserve Power Generation Capacity"
Various bills have been filed at the Texas legislature in response to the recent weather event
February 19, 2021
FERC has terminated Docket No. AD18-7, a proceeding addressing, "Grid Resilience in Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators."
February 19, 2021
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a new emergency item for the current legislative session, in asking the Legislature to, "mandate the winterization of Texas' power system," and for the Legislature, "to ensure the necessary funding for winterization."
February 19, 2021
FERC has scheduled a technical conference on resource adequacy in the evolving electricity sector
February 17, 2021
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared the "reform" of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) an emergency item this legislative session.
February 16, 2021
The Texas PUC issued a further order on ERCOT pricing, and rescinded its prior directive that past ERCOT prices during the weather event be corrected to reflect scarcity pricing
February 11, 2021
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said today that it is expecting record electric use as a result of the extreme cold temperatures that have already reached much of the ERCOT region.
January 15, 2021
A final report prepared by a consultant for ERCOT estimates a market equilibrium reserve margin (MERM) of 12.25% under projected 2024 market conditions
January 11, 2021
The Organization of PJM States, Inc. (OPSI) wrote to PJM's board of managers with a recommendation for "four core principles" concerning resource adequacy and the PJM markets
January 6, 2021
Vistra today announced that its Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility connected to the power grid and began operating on Dec. 11, 2020.
January 5, 2021
Resi Station, LLC applied for electric market-based rate authority at FERC, for the Southwest Region
December 16, 2020
ERCOT today released its December Capacity, Demand and Reserves (CDR) report and said that, "New generation resources, including a significant amount of utility-scale solar, continue to be added to the ERCOT region at a rapid pace, resulting in higher planning reserve margins over the next several…
December 2, 2020
ERCOT received a Notification of Suspension of Operations (NSO) for the following Generation Resource: Wharton County Generation, LLC – TGF_TGFGT_1
December 2, 2020
A draft report prepared by a consultant for ERCOT estimates a market equilibrium reserve margin of 12.25% under projected 2024 market conditions
November 5, 2020
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said today that it anticipates there will be sufficient installed generating capacity available to serve system-wide forecasted peak demand this winter and in spring 2021.
October 29, 2020
Direct Energy Business, "announced today recent changes in its energy strategy to offer the benefits of battery storage in California."
September 3, 2020
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) anticipates there will be sufficient installed generating capacity available to serve system-wide forecasted peak demand this fall and winter.
June 16, 2020
ERCOT has issued a reliability analysis determination for the generating unit City of Austin d/b/a Austin Energy - DECKER_DPG1, which had submitted a Notification of Suspension of Operations
