by R.A. Dyer | Sep 27, 2024 | ERCOT
How much power will artificial intelligence facilities consume over the long term? How should the state’s principal grid operator handle that demand? Will enough generation show up to meet it? The ERCOT organization and state regulators continue grappling with these...
by R.A. Dyer | Sep 4, 2024 | Electricity, ERCOT
Approved Aug, 29 by commissioners, the new standard is intended to give the agency better visibility going forward on the ERCOT system’s reliability needs and could open the door to future reforms. ________________________________________________ As per a legislative...
by R.A. Dyer | Sep 4, 2024 | Electricity, ERCOT
The projects were selected from among 72 applications for the PUC to consider under the state’s low-interest “In-ERCOT Loan Program,” which is part of the Texas Energy Fund established after Winter Storm Uri in 2023. ________________________________________________...
by R.A. Dyer | Aug 14, 2024 | Electricity, ERCOT
Interested parties now have submitted 19 sets of responses to staff questions about the proposed Reliability Plan for the Permian Basin, which could be adopted by the PUC in September. ________________________________________________ On July 25, 2004, ERCOT filed with...
by TCCFUI | Jun 21, 2024 | Blog, Electricity, ERCOT
Texas regulators were within their rights to lock the price of electricity at its maximum level during Winter Storm Uri in 2021, according to twin rulings this month by the state’s Supreme Court. ________________________________________________ Texas regulators were...
by TCCFUI | Apr 1, 2024 | ERCOT
The survey, developed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been deployed by utilities and electricity regulators in other jurisdictions to assist in the creation of grid reliability policies and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of grid infrastructure...
