Texas ERCOT staff, stakeholders mull scarcity price adder changes

Platts

In response to a Texas regulator’s concern that a price adder designed to ensure that sufficient generation reserves remain available has been too low during periods of scarcity, Electric Reliability Council of Texas stakeholders and staff have been analyzing several alternatives.
On Wednesday, the ERCOT Wholesale Market Subcommittee endorsed a report from the ERCOT Supply Adequacy Working Group that summarized analysis of possible changes to this adder, known as the Operating Reserve Demand Curve, but the analysis nevertheless …

In Texas power market, flighty customers pose challenge

The Dallas Morning News

by James Osborne
From television commercials to sales reps at the supermarket, the push to uproot Texans from those companies that have traditionally supplied electricity here continues to gain ground.
New data from the state’s grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, shows that the number of residential customers that have at some point left their incumbent electrical provider — for instance, TXU Energy in Dallas or Reliant in Houston — has now reached …