Two Day Programme: Fundamentals of Today’s Texas ERCOT Electric Power Market (Grapevine, TX, United States – March 15th-16th, 2018) – ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The "Fundamentals
of Today's Texas ERCOT Electric Power Market" conference has
been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This new in-depth two-day program (CPE approved) provides a
comprehensive and clear explanation of the structure, function, and
current status of the Texas ERCOT ISO including its operations, the
fundamentals of day-ahead and real-time energy auctions, LMP, CRRs,
generation capacity markets (Resource Adequacy) and the new operational
and economic issues raised by the integration of solar, wind,
distributed generation (DER), demand response (DR) and demand side
management (DSM) resources.

Gain an understanding of the dynamic Texas wholesale and retail
competitive markets, and learn how these markets interface with ERCOT
ISO energy auctions and ISO operations. Understand, enhance and apply
knowledge of the ERCOT' nodal market operations for Energy, Ancillary
Services, Market Settlements, Capacity, Retail and Renewables.

This seminar will also address the rapidly expanding new market
opportunities in Texas Renewables – Wind, Solar, etc., Distributed
Generation (DER), Demand Response and Demand Side Management (DSM) as
well as the new opportunities that will be emerging from the current
re-design of ERCOT Ancillary Services, future Ancillary and Capacity
market initiatives and the further unbundling of ERCOT services.

What You Will Learn:

• ERCOT's market functions, market participants and players and how they
  interface and do business.
• The importance of the QSEs' central role in representing market
  participants before ERCOT.
• What makes the ERCOT market unique compared to all other ISOs and RTOs.
• What changed after the move to a nodal market design and major
  transactional differences.
• What the "Shadow Price" is, and why it is important and its
  relationship to LMP.
• Nodal System: LMPs, congestion management and CRRs and settlement
  processes.
• The functions and importance of congestion revenue rights and why
  these financial instruments are used.
• ERCOT's zonal and local congestion management operations and
  differences.
• Day-Ahead and real-time markets for energy, ancillary services and
  capacity – RUC and HRUC.
• The workings and relationship of the day-ahead and real-time markets.

You Will Also Learn:

• How Bilateral and Auction Markets interface and how they work
  independently and together.
• Wholesale pricing, retail market Functions and structures for retail
  business.
• The key wholesale market settlement operations under the nodal market.
• How ERCOT's retail market works and what's going on in this market.
• The controversial relationships between reserve margins and real-time
  energy price market caps.
• What Generation, Transmission and infrastructure issues ERCOT faces
  now and over the next ten years.
• ERCOT has targeted demand response deployments, renewable energy and
  DSM programs and those on the horizon.
• The interconnectivity issues in natural gas and power markets.
• How the different IT systems fit together and are used in the
  Wholesale and Retail Markets.
• What are the steps for planning and accomplishing resource
  interconnections with ERCOT.

For more information about this conference visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/hcm5t9/two_day?w=4

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