Expect more conservation notices as ERCOT, PUC announce plans to overhaul Texas electricity market

Shelby Webb, Staff writer

The leaders of the Public Utility Commission and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said Thursday they will start an effort to redesign how Texas’ electricity market works to provide incentives power generators to produce a more stable flow of electricity to Texas’ troubled electric grid.

But, they said, ERCOT will need to continue to ask Texans to conserve energy at times, especially as the state heads into the hottest part of summer in the coming weeks.

In a joint press conference, PUC Chairman Peter Lake and interim ERCOT CEO Brad Jones said they…

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