Market Rules Market Rules

Balanced market rules are a basic element in Texas competition. Clear, predictable and well-designed rules help foster a stable electricity market. Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market rules are developed by participants from all aspects of the electricity industry. The rules and amendments are reviewed by the Public Utility Commission of Texas to ensure that they satisfy the public interest.

In this section, you will find the ERCOT protocols, guides, policies and procedures that help steer the Texas market participants.


Pending Revision Requests and Issues

PRR753 PRR Appeals Process
PRR754 Resource Settlement Due To Forced Transmission Outage
PRR765 Time Of Use Revisions
PRR768 TDSP Energy Storage for Reliability
PRR769 EECP Media Appeal Change
PRR770 Deletion of UFE Analysis Zone Language
PRR771 Ramp Rate Limitation of 10% per minute of On-Line Installed Capability for Wind-powered Generation Resources
PRR773 Setting the LSL Requirement for WGRs
PRR774 Treatment of Financial Information as Confidential
PRR775 Change the name of Emergency Electric Curtailment Plan (EECP) to Energy Emergency Alert (EEA)
PRR776 Automatic MCPE Adjustment During Intervals of Non-Spinning Reserve Service Deployment
PRR777 WGR QSE Metric Correction
PRR778 Clarification of Authorized Representative
PRR779 Transparency for PSS and Full Interconnection Studies
PRR780 Extending Black Start Service Bid Timeline
PRR781 EILS Self-Provision Formula Correction and Clarifications
PRR782 Clean-up and Corrections to Terminology and Transaction Timings in Protocol Section 15, Customer Registration
PRR783 Elimination of the Non-ERCOT LSE Fee
OGRR165 Update Unit Telemetry Requirement
OGRR188 Generating Facility Model Validation for Conformance with NERC Field Test Standards
OGRR203 Conforming Changes to Address Current NERC Terminology and the Texas Regional Entity (TRE) Terminology
OGRR212 EECP Media Appeal Change
RMGRR065 Disconnect and Reconnect for Non-Payment Updates and Corrections
RMGRR066 Safety-Net Move-In Process Updates
RMGRR068 Out-Flow Power from Distributed Renewable Generation Facilities
RMGRR069 Texas SET Retail Market Guide Clean-up – Section 7: Historical Usage and Estimated Meter Readings; Section 9: Transaction Timing Matrix and Letter of Authorization
SCR741 Multi-Day Scheduling Capability
SCR745 Retail Market Outage Evaluation and Resolution
SCR750 Upgrade ERCOT’s Systems so Users Can Upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.0 and Beyond
There are currently no open issues.
There are currently no open issues.
COPMGRR007 Creating Section 3, Organizational Structure
COPMGRR008 Alignment of Appendix A with Data Extracts and Reports Service Level Agreement (SLA)
LPGRR031 Profile Decision Tree Changes For Distributed Renewable Generation
LPGRR032 Profile Decision Tree Changes for Advanced Meters
TXSET077 Provide additional meter information from the TDSP to identify the presence of a meter used for Master Metering
TXSET078 The REF~JH~I should be designated by TX SET to be used for kWh Generation values only
TXSET080 A new SAC 04 Code will be needed to uniquely identify the EECRF
TXSET083 The MIMO Stacking Document and the current Retail Market Guide are inconsistent with the current logic and should be updated.