ERCOT stakeholders to revisit paying power generators to ramp down

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Generators required by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to ramp down for grid reliability may be compensated under a proposal ERCOT’s board has asked stakeholders to reconsider, in response to an appeal of the proposal’s failure in committee.
At issue is Nodal Protocol Revision Request 649, which addresses ERCOT’s out-of-merit dispatch overrides of generators’ plans to produce at their high sustainable limit.
The NPRR was sponsored by ERCOT staff partly to settle an appeal to the Public Utility Council of Texas by Odessa-Ector Power Partners of ERCOT’s denial of resettlement of payments to …

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