ERCOT’s Wild Summer Is Over. Solar Looks Like the Winner

Greentech Media
By info@greentechmedia.comSep 24, 2019, 8:58 am266 pts
Another summer, another nail-biter for the Texas power market. The dog days of August saw grid operator ERCOT’s reserve generating margin melt to nearly nothing amid a heat wave, as record power demand drove wholesale prices to an eye-watering $9,000 per megawatt-hour. (Average real-time wholesale prices in…

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