Tom Kleckner

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.

ERCOT has set a target go-live date for its real-time co-optimization project, which is expected to add millions in savings to its market.

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.

ERCOT staff and CPS Energy continue to work “very closely” in negotiating reliability must-run contracts for three aging coal-fired units.

SPP’s Board of Directors has approved the RTO’s 2025 operating and capital budgets and its net revenue requirement.

Former ERCOT Independent Market Monitor Carrie Bivens has been named vice president of SPP’s Market Monitoring Unit.