TAC Meeting – 8/26/26 – VIDEO
PART ONE PART TWO
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Large Load Working Group (LLWG)
Executive Summary At the October 2026 Large Load Working Group there was an update on NERC standards development for Large Computational Loads (they are moving fast), a presentation by Agentic of a non co-located Bring Your Own Generation idea, a run down of load dropping events in the Dominion territory and how data centers are…
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ERCOT Board of Directors (BoD)
Executive Summary The September board meeting had the long awaited temporal and geographic view on Batch Zero, the approval of the ERCOT proposed 2027 Ancillary Service Methodology, words on Far West Mitigation (not happening anytime soon) and Large Load Voltage Ride Through related mitigation (also not happening anytime soon), a reminder that ERCOT is working…
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Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
Executive Summary The HVAC wasn’t the only thing broken at the August TAC meeting, as even after three ballots, TAC failed to endorse any version of the 2027 AS Methodology; not the ‘buy more than ERCOT asked for’ 0% risk credit version, not the ‘buy more than ERCOT asked for with a nod to consumers’…
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Special BoD 4/1/25
Executive Summary In a surprise 2 AM meeting of the Board of Directors (“We’re mostly early risers in this group,” said Board Chair Bill Flores, “and the ones who aren’t are usually still up this time of night anyway, so it seemed to be best.” “and the traffic is way lighter this time of day”…
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Monthly Battery Revenue in ERCOT
The Gist Batteries make the lion’s share of their revenue from Ancillary Services, but the portion of revenue from energy is growing noticeably. Using our revenue tracking software we estimated the energy and AS revenue of the ERCOT battery fleet from 7/7/21 to 10/7/23. The results are summarized in the graph below: The Accuracy In…
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Batteries on the “Tight Day in 2022”
July 13th was the tightest day in 2022. And batteries are fast become a real game changer in ERCOT; so how did they operate when the rubber hit the road? Well, let’s see, shall we. Filled sections of the chart are the energy offered to the real time market color coded by price range. The…
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Maximum Observed Capacity
Wind, Solar, and Batteries are growing in ERCOT, but how fast? The figure below shows the growth in ERCOT’s newest technologies from January 2019 to May 2023 and the capacity additions are staggering.
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60 Day Report Viewer +
Check out a demonstration copy of our ERCOT sixty day report viewer. It’s indistinguishable from the full version, except it has a limited date range (3/22/23-4/22/23). It not only has the information from the sixty day reports, but it also has both sides of the battery (charging and discharging) visible at the same time, LMP,…
