ERCOT panel keeps alive proposal to ban intra-day offer changes
Houston (Platts)
A proposed rule to prevent generators committed in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ day-ahead market from changing real-time energy offer curves in the middle of the day was kept alive at ERCOT’s Wholesale Market Subcommittee meeting Wednesday.
After a lengthy debate, WMS recommended that ERCOT’s Protocol Revision Subcommittee table Nodal Protocol Revision Request 574 and refer it back to WMS, which would refer the issue to the Qualified Scheduling Entity Managers Working Group to “refine the parameters” about when it would be appropriate or inappropriate to allow intra-day energy offer curve changes. The vote was…