ERCOT's supervisor of operational forecasting said current climate patterns are very similar to those in 2021, ... asked Woody Rickerson, ERCOT’s senior vice president and chief operating officer.

Therefore, Rickerson will be in charge of grid operations, weatherization, planning, and commercial operations. ERCOT also named Kristi Hobbs vice president of system planning and weatherization.

The changes are detailed below, per ERCOT: Woody Rickerson, who was previously the vice president for system planning and weatherization, has been promoted to the newly created position of senior ...

But the agency, which is commonly known as ERCOT, said the market remains "tight" while 33,000 megawatts of generation is offline while generators perform maintenance.

“Now we're a little more worried about maybe the 9 p.m. hour. The load [demand] will drop from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., but the solar is dropping more than the load drops,” Rickerson said.

According to the statement from ERCOT, Woody Rickerson, previously Vice President, System Planning and Weatherization, has been promoted to the newly created position of Senior Vice President and ...

It’s too high,” ERCOT Chief Operating Officer Woody Rickerson said at the Gulf Coast Power Association 2023 fall conference in Austin on Tuesday. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad.

Woody Rickerson, chief operating officer of the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas, discussed an August grid emergency with the Public Utilities Commission of Texas on Sept. 14.

According to Woody Rickerson, vice president of ERCOT System Planning and Weatherization, new internal modeling—the Probabilistic Reserve Model (PRM)—suggests the grid’s profile for load ...

State power regulators tell ERCOT to consider more factors when determining grid reliability after the simulation showed Texas at risk of outages every three years. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...