Tag Archives: erc

Routing Around Regulators

Dec 21st – 6pm

I dislike bashing the ERC staff – it’s almost never called for. But I don’t mind discussing failures of the the ERC as an institution and even then, quite frankly, it’s usually more appropriate to point fingers outside that institution as major culprits.
The ERC has been unable, over the years, to hold NPC/Transco to [...]

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Transmission Constraints

Dec 12th – 11am

Alfie concretely addresses one of the more fundamental power market issues we’re going to be wrestling with on Luzon for the foreseeable future. [There are others; but this is a blog post, not a book.]
For each hour, WESM stacks up all the bids from generators – low to high – and starts selecting the cheapest [...]

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