How does ERCOT work?

ERCOT How Does ERCOT Work?
Descriptive Transcript (English)
Onscreen: Animated graphics in ERCOT branded colors appear throughout the video, emphasizing the words.
Narrator: ERCOT provides a central place where generation is dispatched out onto the grid, and where generation and load are balanced at all times.
ERCOT is similar to an air traffic controller. It doesn't own the airplanes or the runways, but it steps back and makes sure everything is flowing properly and efficiently.
Onscreen: An icon depicting an air traffic control tower blinks, indicating a transmission of communication as planes fly over a runway with a Texas skyline in the background.
Narrator: ERCOT doesn't own the assets. It doesn't make electricity. But it monitors all the moving parts that keep electricity flowing and keeps the markets that provide electricity to Texans running.
Onscreen: Graphics of transmission lines and oil drilling rigs pass quickly by, leading us towards an energy efficient light bulb that turns on, radiating with light.
Narrator: There are a number of participants in ERCOT’s market that make electricity work in Texas starting from your home.
Onscreen: A dashed white line leads from a home to a facility and then out to a wind power station.
Narrator: Your home receives electricity from a distribution company. The distribution company receives electricity from the transmission system, which is what ERCOT is managing in its control room.
ERCOT has prepared for the future in two primary ways:
1) To make sure its people, systems, and market participants have the right rules to manage a changing system.
2) From a technological perspective, the grid operator has to be very sophisticated in order to manage the future of the electric grid. The best thing about ERCOT is the people committed to the mission of making sure electric power will always get to the people of Texas.
Onscreen: Series of videos of ERCOT employees, featuring staff members focused on work in the control room and collaborating with colleagues at the office.
Narrator: ERCOT.
Your Power. Our Promise.
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