by TCCFUI | Feb 21, 2018 | Blog, Electricity
It’s called the Operating Demand Reserve Curve — ORDC for short. You can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of it. But the ORDC — which is a component of the state’s wholesale power system — made news this month … and in a way that could impact power costs. The Texas...
by TCCFUI | Dec 1, 2017 | Blog, ERCOT
ERCOT is an island unto itself — that is, unless the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission takes over. And that at least remote possibility has captured the attention of the state’s top utility regulator. “I’m very, very concerned about it,” said Public Utility...
by TCCFUI | Nov 20, 2017 | Blog, Electricity, Gas, Regulatory Action
Regulatory planners, industry officials and others looking to guard against blackouts must focus more of their attention on the nation’s natural gas delivery systems and its natural gas-fired plants. That’s among the key take-away findings from a new report by the...
by TCCFUI | Nov 6, 2017 | Blog, Electricity, ERCOT
With the expected retirement of several aging plants and the continued growth of wind power, the production of electricity from wind turbines may soon supersede that from coal in Texas. That’s the word from University of Texas-Austin research fellow Joshua Rhodes, who...
by TCCFUI | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog, Electricity, ERCOT
Texas should have sufficient generation capacity to safely keep the lights burning for the coming months — even given the announced retirements of several big generating plants. That’s the word this week from ERCOT, the organization that manages the...
