The ERCOT TAC declined to pursue a change in how the ISO commits and dispatches resources, and discussed principles for restarting the markets after outages.

ERCOT stakeholders approved a protocol change that clarifies that the ISO can curtail DC tie loads without having to declare an emergency condition.

The ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee moving reporting requirements for unregistered distributed generation.

ERCOT reliability unit commitment activity increased more than three-fold in 2016, staff said at the Technical Advisory Committee meeting last week.

The ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee approved several revision requests related to collateral requirements, the ISO's admin fee and shadow pricing.

ERCOT stakeholders approved new criteria for determining the need for new projects to address existing transmission planning challenges.

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee assigned two subcommittees to consider responses to discrepancies in day-ahead market make-whole payments.

ERCOT staff told the Technical Advisory Committee it is preparing a proposal to map registered distributed generation units and a white paper on DER.

ERCOT will continue its reliability must-run agreement with NRG Energy’s Greens Bayou Unit 5 after a solicitation produced no viable alternatives.