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Texas Governor Enacts Grid Reliability Measures, Including Power Plant Weatherization, ERCOT Reforms
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law sweeping bills approved by Texas legislators that will require power generators in the state to weatherize against extreme events and revamp organizational oversight of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
Hours before the state’s regular 140-day legislative session dwindled to its end on May 30 and amid high-profile drama related to a GOP priority voting bill Texas House and Senate lawmakers approved a series of last-minute changes to Senate Bill (SB) 2, related to ERCOT oversight, and SB 3, the state’s reliability statute. The governor signed these measures, which he had deemed “emergency items” for the 87th session
Averting crisis: Path to weatherize Texas power plants and some gas wells set under compromise bill
The Legislature’s biggest answer yet to weaknesses exposed by winter storm selectively weatherizes gas infrastructure, creates outage alerts and tightens coordination.
A compromise bill unveiled by Texas House leaders on Tuesday would respond to February s electricity crisis by, among other things, weatherizing power plants – and, selectively, natural gas infrastructure. The bill also would create outage alerts and require grid managers and utility regulators to practice for emergencies.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
5:59 PM on May 18, 2021 CDT
AUSTIN Texas would require weatherization of electrical generating plants and some natural gas wells and related pipelines and compressors under a compromise bill that House leaders unveiled Tuesday.
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Rayburn Electric Cooperative Goes Live with PCI’s Cloud Platform to Meet its Member Billing Requirements
April 14, 2021 GMT
HOUSTON (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 14, 2021
Rayburn Electric Cooperative, (“REC” or “Rayburn Electric”), has gone live with PCI’s Enterprise Platform to manage its member billing and settlement validation requirements in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) power market.
As part of this new partnership, PCI deployed its specifically tailored, cloud-based, integrated platform to replace Rayburn Electric’s legacy system and several in-house applications. The new Member Billing Solution implemented by PCI, enables Rayburn Electric to:
Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative Files Petition with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to Take Definitive Steps to Protect 225,000 Texans from Excessive Costs
ERCOT Independent Market Monitor letter states that ERCOT erroneously overcharged its market participants by $16 billion and recommended charges be reversed
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ROCKWALL, Texas, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Rayburn), a not-for profit rural electric generation and transmission cooperative that provides the wholesale power requirements for four rural electric distribution cooperatives in Northeast Texas, today announced it has filed a petition with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (Commission) to order the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to protect 225,000 Texas consumers by suspending invoicing, billing and collection of charges related to February s massive energy market failure. This announcement fo
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