
BLOG: ERCOT Reports Higher Projected Reserve Margins
All else equal, a higher reserve margin should mean less likelihood of certain kinds of reliability problems, as well as lower wholesale prices.
All else equal, a higher reserve margin should mean less likelihood of certain kinds of reliability problems, as well as lower wholesale prices.
By potentially shifting a portion of the state’s very large energy needs from transportation onto the electric system, electric vehicles present challenges to Texas’s utility framework.
Like the rest of Texas, ERCOT has had to make significant adjustments in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic
The Southern Cross Transmission Project seeks to create a direct-current transmission link between ERCOT and the Southeastern United States using a transmission line through Louisiana and Mississippi.
ERCOT has no control over the quantity of electricity used on the system, although its finances depend on that usage.