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Electric Reliability Council of Texas
Recent News About Electric Reliability Council of Texas
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ERCOT's Vegas: 'We are forecasting increased demand due to the higher temperatures expected this week and into next week'
Forecasts of triple-digit heat for much of the second full week of June prompted the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to implement a weather watch on Tuesday to go into effect on Thursday.
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ERCOT's Vegas: 'There’s a low probability scenario where there’s very high peak load and extreme outages'
Approximately six months after many questioned whether it was prepared for scorching summer temperatures, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is under scrutiny again, this time for its ability to soldier through another potentially dangerous blast of cold weather.
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Peacock:' The greatest threat to the reliability of the Texas grid is the unwillingness of Austin's political leadership to challenge big business's push for subsidies'
As Texas has issued several close-call conservation notices in 2022, energy policy analysts are drawing a connection between the longstanding policy of subsidies flowing to renewable energy developers and Texas’ electric grid volatility.
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Vegas on new role as ERCOT head: 'This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity'
The operator of Texas’ energy grid named its new chief executive officer (CEO) and president on Tuesday, according to a press release.
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Residents, businesses requested to voluntarily conserve power: 'ERCOT continues to use all tools available to manage the grid effectively and reliably'
The entity that oversees the State of Texas’s energy grid has issued a conservation appeal to residents and businesses, per a news release.
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Patrick: Weekend grid warnings in Texas show that 'work remains to be done'
ERCOT issued a grid warning this weekend to Texans after multiple generators failed, raising reliability concerns that have been top of mind since Winter Storm Uri.
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Feeling the heat: 'We're going to need every megawatt-hour we can get'
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) warned that high temperatures might be more taxing on the state's electrical grid than expected.
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Energy analyst criticizes lack of reform with Texas power grid
Bill Peacock offers this advice for Texans as winter sets in: Hope for a mild one and pray that we won’t experience a storm like the one that battered the state last February.
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ERCOT says it is prepared for 'higher' summer electric load forecast
As June approaches, Texans are preparing for another broiling summer, and so is the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
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Energy Alliance analyst sees danger in Texas following 'capacity market' model of California, New York
Switching from Texas' current electricity market structure to a "capacity market" will make electricity bills in the state go up but not make the grid, which teetered almost to a halt in February, more reliable, according to a recent report.