The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is the organization entrusted to keep electric power flowing to approximately 20 million Texas customers – representing 85 percent of the state’s electric load and about 75 percent of the Texas land area.
As the Independent System Operator for its region, ERCOT manages the scheduling of power on an electric grid consisting of 70,000 megawatts of active generation capacity and 38,000 miles of transmission lines.
ERCOT also manages financial settlement for the hundreds of market participants in Texas’s deregulated wholesale bulk power and administers customer switching.
As one of eight regional reliability organizations in North America, ERCOT monitors and enforces industry reliability standards for grid and utility operations.
ERCOT is a non-profit corporation regulated by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and subject to oversight by the Texas Legislature.
ERCOT’s members include retail consumers, investor- and municipal-owned electric utilities, rural electric co-ops, river authorities, independent generators, power marketers and retail electric providers.
Am I the only one without a clue as to what this post is supposed to mean?
Texas -> Amarillo -> Armadillo
Must be Friday.
Don’t they also have an amusement park in Florida?
I think I get this. Jeff used to post instructions on how to do various tasks. I think one of them was installing windows or something like that. I’m too lazy to try to find it.
– Beck is simply shilling for the Amarillo chamber of commerce, assuring you that your electric shavor will always work if you vacation there. Shhheeess…Would have thought that was pretty obvious…
– That and it is indeed Friday, and we all know what that means… Teavel Ad’s in lieu of Dancing …get used to it….
(Be on the lookout for Collins slinking around in a phoney ‘dillo costume….even if he wasn’t too great with beer belly it won’t work….He forgot….He can’t dance either…)
Cogito ercot sum
I think I am a nonprofit organization subject to oversight by the Texas Legislature.
Shouldn’t that be ”Cogito escargot sum”?
TW: not53
By way of explanation
By way of rejoinder
Slander! Beer belly or no beer belly, beer or no beer, Collins can dance! Why he’s Dan C. Get it?
Also, he does have beer!
Cogito ergot sum.
I thought it was coitus ergo sum.
Safety reminder in an explosives factory.
I am sitting in a Crowne Plaza Hotel off I-55 in Springfield, IL – waiting to talk with a bunch of colonels tomorrow….and I am deep into my second Dalwhinnie (three finger, neat).
I still don’t grok it, but I am enjoying it…
Reminds me of the rough ride my honest, well-run utility stock got over the past several years. First it got socked by association after the California brownouts (thank you, NIMBYs!), and then it got socked by association when Enron failed. It’s fine now, thank goodness.
Fun with NARUC.
ERCOT is an organisation backed by the Public Utility Comission of Texas to oversee the deregulated energy market, manage the transmission system and to fleece to electric consumers within the jurisdiction of ERCOT for all they can.