Tom Kleckner

Jeff McDonald, a 22-year market monitoring veteran with ISO-NE and CAISO, has been hired as director of ERCOT’s Independent Market Monitor.

Texas regulators have made it clear that they and stakeholders will be involved in the performance credit mechanism’s design.

An expected tsunami of solar resources setting up in Texas has led to an immediate need for ERCOT regarding inverter-based resources (IBRs).

CPS Energy has told ERCOT it plans to “indefinitely suspend operations” at three aging gas-fired units, further reducing thermal capacity.

The new Texas Energy Fund In-ERCOT Generation Loan Program is a $5 billion fund designed to encourage new dispatchable power projects.

ERCOT’s latest capacity, demand and reserves report projects summer peak demand will increase to more than 97 GW by 2034.

ERCOT said it has hired Keith Collins, SPP vice president of market monitoring, as its new vice president of market operations.

The ERCOT TAC and staff came to an agreement on a rule change that imposes voltage ride-through requirements on IBRs.

SPP’s REAL Team approved base planning reserve margins and a sufficiency valuation curve, codifying months of work.

ERCOT’s Board of Directors took up two contentious protocol changes that have divided staff and stakeholders.

AEP executives say they're embracing large loads and have firm commitments for more than 15 GW of load coming from just data centers by 2030.

ERCOT staff have withdrawn a protocol change and updated control room procedures after the regulatory commission rejected ECRS modifications.

SPP is considering a 765-kV solution and several 500-kV proposals in its Permian Basin footprint in Texas and New Mexico as it dabbles with extra-high-voltage transmission lines.

SPP CEO Barbara Sugg has announced that she will retire from the RTO on April 1, 2025, after 35 years of service.

SPP directors and regulators have approved the grid operator’s first winter planning reserve margin, endorsing a base PRM that is 3 percentage points higher than many of its utilities wanted.

ERCOT’s long-delayed and now-bifurcated rule change to NOGRR245 has been partly approved, but much work remains.

The Texas PUC adopted a reliability standard for the ERCOT region, one of several parameters for the proposed PCM market.

A Texas Public Utility Commission security and risk executive urged ERCOT stakeholders to treat the ISO’s grid as a special jewel.

FERC said in a Sept. 19 order that the revisions, which are effective Oct. 16, provide an opportunity for cost recovery.

Thomas Gleeson, chair of Texas’ Public Utility Commission, spoke at the Texas Clean Energy summit about the challenges he has faced.