CERAWeek: ERCOT market reforms prompt leadership watchfulness

Author Mark Watson

Houston — The Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ leadership is taking a wait-and-see attitude to whether state regulators’ mandated market reform will provide high enough prices this summer to encourage new dispatchable generation, ERCOT CEO Bill Magness says.

“We can operate the grid reliably either with or without the reforms,” Magness, also ERCOT’s president, said Thursday on …

Extreme weather, generation fleet makeover, power market conditions prompt change at MISO

New Orleans — Midcontinent Independent System Operator market participants in the southern region on Thursday discussed the paradigm shifts in operating conditions, generation fleet and market environment that are prompting strategic changes in the system’s planning and market design.

At the beginning of the Gulf Coast Power Association’s sixth annual MISO South Regional Conference in New Orleans, John Bear, MISO president and CEO, noted the following major issues: …