Author Mark Watson
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas Board of Directors’ vote for a more restrictive generation outage scheduling rule change against the overwhelming opposition of stakeholders drew harsh criticism April 29 from industry observers — one describing it as “government intervention at its most meddlesome.”
After spending more than four hours in executive session an April 28 meeting, the board reconvened about 1:15 pm, eventually hearing the report of the Technical Advisory Committee, the top-level stakeholder body which normally presents nodal protocol revision requests endorsed for board approval.
Among those were NPRR 1108, …
