ERCOT stakeholders to revisit paying power generators to ramp down

Platts

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 …

Oncor: Hunt’s Possible Merger Could Boost Rates

The Texas Tribune

by Jim Malewitz
Oncor, the state’s largest utility, is warning state regulators that electric rates could increase for millions of Texas customers if state regulators approve a complex reorganization plan that would include its takeover of the much smaller, and struggling, Sharyland Utilities.
In a filing with the Texas Public Utility Commission Wednesday, Oncor, whose power lines serve three millions homes and businesses in North and West Texas, said its …