This deep dive offers an in-depth overview of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), explaining its role as the independent system operator for most of Texas. It highlights ERCOT's three core purposes: ensuring grid reliability, managing the competitive wholesale market, and guaranteeing open access to transmission. A significant portion of the text focuses on ERCOT's unique "Energy-Only" market design, contrasting it with capacity markets and detailing how scarcity pricing incent...
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This deep dive offers an in-depth overview of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), explaining its role as the independent system operator for most of Texas. It highlights ERCOT's three core purposes: ensuring grid reliability, managing the competitive wholesale market, and guaranteeing open access to transmission. A significant portion of the text focuses on ERCOT's unique "Energy-Only" market design, contrasting it with capacity markets and detailing how scarcity pricing incent...
This deep dive provides an in-depth look at the natural gas market in the United States, explaining its significant economic impact and outlining the physical and financial aspects of the industry. It details the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in regulating interstate transportation and sales, as well as the infrastructure involved, including pipelines and LNG terminals. The text also discusses the different ways natural gas is found and processed, differentia...
US Energy Deep Dive
This deep dive offers an in-depth overview of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), explaining its role as the independent system operator for most of Texas. It highlights ERCOT's three core purposes: ensuring grid reliability, managing the competitive wholesale market, and guaranteeing open access to transmission. A significant portion of the text focuses on ERCOT's unique "Energy-Only" market design, contrasting it with capacity markets and detailing how scarcity pricing incent...
