Dec. 19 — In a filing Monday, ERCOT notified the Public Utility Commission of Texas it had violated rules related to the release of information on energy ancillary service offers, to the calculation of proxy offer curves for price-taking resources, to projections for ancillary service requirements in the short and medium term, and to generation interconnection studies.
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