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...
Understanding Wholesale Electricity Markets and Demand Response
US Energy Deep Dive
36 minutes
5 months ago
Understanding Wholesale Electricity Markets and Demand Response
This deep dive provides an overview of wholesale electricity markets in the United States, explaining how electricity is generated, measured in watts, kilowatts, and megawatts, and how demand is measured over time in watt-hours. It describes the historical evolution of the electricity industry, from regulated monopolies to reserve sharing, power pools, and ultimately, competitive markets managed by Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and Independent System Operators (ISOs). The text al...
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...
