Former Texas regulators made recommendations they hope will prevent additional weather-driven blackouts like those that devastated the state in February.

The Texas Legislature passed several pieces of legislation addressing ERCOT’s disastrous performance during February’s winter storm.

Day two of FERC’s technical conference emphasized the need for more transmission to facilitate trading and properly compensating demand-side resources.

ERCOT and the PUC are working to prevent a repeat of the February winter storm that left Texans "traumatized."

Communications staff from ERCOT and the Texas PUC told commissioners they are working together to improve public outreach after the February winter storm.

ERCOT’s Market Monitor released its annual State of the Market report for 2020, finding that the wholesale market performed competitively in 2020.

Panelists told FERC at a virtual technical conference that considering how climate change may affect the future grid is especially challenging.

Texas lawmakers last week passed a pair of utility reform bills in response to the ERCOT grid’s near collapse during February’s winter storm, giving them more influence over the grid operator but also creating doubt over the measures’ effectiveness. Senate Bill 2 would overhaul the ERCOT Board of Directors’ makeup,...

ERCOT welcomed 70% of Lubbock Power & Light’s load to its system over the weekend, a culmination of six years of engineering work and regulatory approvals. The Texas grid operator said the transition was completed without issues at 12:22 p.m. Sunday. Staff worked closely with LP&L and Oncor personnel to...

ERCOT stakeholders are waiting on final direction from state lawmakers and regulators as they tackle a list of more than 100 emergency conditions issues arising out of February’s disastrous winter storm. Just Energy’s Eric Blakey, chairing last week’s Technical Advisory Committee meeting in the absence of South Texas Electric Cooperative’s...