Texas wind hit a new generation record on Monday as steady winds through West Texas and the Panhandle kept the state’s wind turbines spinning.
The record 17,920 megawatts of wind generation was hit at 3:32 p.m. Monday and made up more than 40 percent of power generation in the territory covered by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, Texas’ grid operator. Wind speeds in …
Author: Mark Watson
Houston — The Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s leadership is working with stakeholders to implement the independent market monitor’s recent recommendations designed to help mitigate MISO’s low capacity auction results.
MISO’s 2018-19 Planning Resource Auction cleared at $10/MW-day for all zones except the wind-heavy, mostly rural Zone 1 in MISO ‘s northwest footprint, where the auction cleared at $1/MW-day. These numbers can be compared with the cost of …