Author: STEVE REEDY

Executive Summary Another long TAC (like last month), but this one was interesting all the way through.  The forces lined up against NPRR1092(Reduce RUC Offer Floor and remove RUC Opt Out) put up an impressive goal line stand and got the issue tabled for a workshop on March 10th.  The next PUC open meeting will…

Executive Summary The CMWG meeting focused on two topics today.  The first topic, nodal prices for load resources, was basically a list of issues with giving nodal prices to controllable loads and discussion about those issues.  No consensus was reached on anything, but the discussion and any follow up with Sai is likely  to inform…

Executive Summary Shams Siddiqi (representing Rainbow Energy) presented his long awaited rewrite of NPRR1088(Reduce Credit Requirements for Trading Only Entities) with an additional twist of classifying entities that only participate in DC Tie transactions as Trading Activity Only entities,  Bob Wittmeyer (representing Denton, I think) presented the latest version of NPRR1112(Reduce Maximum Unsecured Collateral) which…

Executive Summary This special PRS was entirely focused on two NPRRs, NPRR1097(ERCOT forced outage report) and NPRR1120(Firm Fuel Supply Service).   The NPRR1097 discussion dealt with  whether the Resource Entity should be in the report (resolution = no) and what language to use to allow state governmental entities to see outage data right away during an…

Executive Summary The commission talked briefly on the “Goal for Natural Gas”, the need to be wary of unintended consequences while implementing the Backstop Reliability Service, and the ERCOT system’s performance during last week’s winter storm. Notes Goal For Natural Gas. As part of Senate Bill 7 (1999), which deregulated the electricity market in Texas,…

Executive Summary The inaugural session of the Technology Working Group began with a review of the ERCOT TWG charter by chair Venkat Tirupati (venkat.tirupati@ercot.com).  Kevin Bunch of EDF Trading NA was elected vice chair.  The purpose of the meeting is to inform technical staff of breaking technical changes that may affect market participants, well in…

Executive Summary PRS passed two contentious NPRRs (NPRR1096-battery duration for NonSpin and ECRS and NPRR1092-reduce RUC Offer Floor and remove Opt Out).  There was a lot of discussion on the issues, but essentially no new views.  NPRR1120(Firm Fuel Service) was discussed, and the Independent Market Monitor explained their comments (things that they would like to…

Executive Summary Today’s WMS meeting was dominated by two big debates; what should Firm Fuel Supply Service (FFSS) look like (lots of open questions listed below), and how much NonSpin and ECRS should batteries be able to carry (ERCOT is standing firm on 4 hours for NonSpin, 2 hours for ECRS).  Other than that there…

Executive Summary A long TAC that got very interesting at the end.  There was a quick heads up on the upcoming cold weather event (ERCOT will most likely be okay, but will possibly procure more NonSpin and also requests that resources enter outages as soon as possible, particularly gas supply related outages and derates.) There…

Executive Summary A long WMS meeting covered topics important to generators (NPRR1084- require outages for derates; NPRR1108- ERCOT to approve or deny all resource outages, possible RMR of resource owned transmission equipment), batteries (NPRR1100-Allow emergency microgridding, NPRR1096-battery duration for NonSpin and ECRS) and everyone connected to the grid (how do exceptional fuel costs affect mitigation,…