ERCOT sets new wind output record

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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas set a new wind-generation output record of 15,033 MW Sunday, topping 15,000 MW for the first time, the grid operator said.
The record was set at 12:35pm CST Sunday and represented about 45% of total ERCOT electric demand at the time, according to an ERCOT news release.
More than 8,800 MW came from wind farms in …

PJM may use demand-response approach for distributed energy

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PJM Interconnection stakeholders may use a “demand-response type” of framework for integrating distributed energy resources into PJM markets, and more details of this effort will be developed in special sessions of PJM’s Market Implementation Committee.
That was one result of a special session Tuesday of the Markets and Reliability Committee, which was tasked with considering changes to participation rules for distributed resources to…