ERCOT Batteries have Reshaped ERCOT’s Ancillary Services Procurement For most of their tenure on the ERCOT grid, batteries have largely made their bones supplying ancillary services as opposed to energy, but that is beginning to change.
ERCOT Winter is Here, its Risks are Growing As the first major winter storms of 2025 unfold, the unique risks of winter weather on the grid are coming into focus. Let’s explore winter's impact on the grid and how regions are adapting to these evolving challenges.
ERCOT Year in Review: Solar Generation in 2024 Tracking solar's growth across US markets and its contribution to peak demand in 2024.
ERCOT Breaking Down a Record-Setting Day in ERCOT Market highlights and explanations from a day of records in ERCOT.
ERCOT Predicting Coincident Peaks in ERCOT’s 4CP Program Understanding the impact of large flexible loads and energy storage on peak coincident load in ERCOT’s evolving grid
ERCOT How the ERCOT Market Responds to a Nuclear Trip Looking at the data of how ERCOT maintains grid stability when a nuclear plant unexpectedly goes offline.
Curtailment Curtailment: When We Throw Away Clean Energy As we approach the end of another shoulder season — a period of lower demand and higher transmission outages — it's a good time to explain curtailment, a crucial yet often controversial aspect of today's grid operations.
net load Net Load Ramps: How Texas and California Incorporate Renewables The era of renewables marks a substantial shift in the dynamics of power grids. Today’s dispatchable generation isn’t just operating to meet the relatively predictable slope of demand, but to seamlessly match the ever-shifting puzzle edge of net load.
ancillary services Two Weeks of Firsts in Texas: ECRS and New Records Recently, the Texas grid has caught the attention of the energy industry due to unseasonably warm temperatures and ERCOT's release of a new market product, the first in over a decade.