The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Feb. 18 authorized utilities to end rolling blackouts, despite more than 40 GW of generation remaining offline as a result of wintry weather, but real-time locational marginal prices remained near the $9,000/MWh systemwide offer cap around 1:30 pm CT. As of about 1:30 pm CT, about 426,000 customers in Texas remained without power across the state, mostly in central Texas, down from about 2.8 million as of 4 pm CT Feb. 17, according to PowerOutage.us. More than 40 GW of generation remains on forced outage due to the polar vortex, ERCOT said in a news release Feb. 18. Of that total, 23.5 GW was thermal generation and the rest was wind and solar. ERCOT anticipated that no more than 6.5 GW of wind and 304 MW of […]