Highlights ‘Very tight’ market failed to hit offer cap West Texas congestion totals $30 million Houston — Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Strong wind generation helped the Electric Reliability Council of Texas system cope with the mid-July heat wave with high prices, but such wind capacity is unlikely to be available if another heat wave strikes in August, board members were told Tuesday. ERCOT set a new all-time power demand record of 73,259 MW on July 19 and a new all-time weekend demand record of 71,444 MW of July 22. In the latter half of July, ERCOT President and CEO Bill Magness said that “we saw a real test of the system.” Dan Woodfin, ERCOT’s senior director for system operations, added that “renewable output during that week was anywhere from four to seven gigawatts,” which was roughly at or above what ERCOT’s […]