Proposed Changes to ERCOT Mechanism Could Impact Prices

Proposed Changes to ERCOT Mechanism Could Impact Prices

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 — was in the news this month … and in a way that could portend higher power...
Hurricane Harvey: Power Restoration Update

Hurricane Harvey: Power Restoration Update

Hurricane Harvey knocked out service at power plants and across giant transmission lines — but the ERCOT electric grid weathered the storm. All told, power stopped flowing across six of the state’s massive 345 kilovolt lines, as well as across 91 138 kV lines and 138...