TCEQ Exercises Enforcement Discretion On Texas Generation Air Permits During Weather Event
January 17,2018
ERCOT said in a market notice that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has communicated to ERCOT that, effective immediately (as of the market notice issued on January 16, 2018), TCEQ will use its enforcement discretion for power generating facilities during the significant high load at this morning's peak, January 17, due to historic high usage and continued very low temperatures throughout the ERCOT Region ("event").
Power generating facilities are authorized for maximum emission limits. If/when increased generation is requested, TCEQ will exercise enforcement discretion for exceedances of emission and operational limits of power generating plants for Generators who exceed air permit limits in order to maximize generation for the duration of the event, ERCOT said in a market notice
Unless ERCOT or TCEQ provides Notice otherwise, the period of enforcement discretion will end when ERCOT declares that it is no longer in this event.