ERCOT’s market performance draws generators, utilities, consumers’ praise

摘要

Representatives of generators, retail electricity providers and large industrial consumers extolled the performance of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas market during extremely tight conditions this summer to state regulators Friday, and expressed optimism for further improvement. During a Public Utility Commission of Texas workshop about the ERCOT’s performance this summer, Dan Woodfin, ERCOT senior director of system operations, noted that June and July were relatively mild but August was the second hottest on record, and September was the hottest on record. ERCOT set a record peakload of 74,666 MW August 12, which was followed with an Energy Emergency Alert Level 1 August 13 and August 15, and the week featured quadruple-digit real-time locational marginal prices each day of that week.