To: Operations
Sent: Tue, Aug 13, 2019 02:48 PM
Subject: M-A081319-01 TCEQ Notice of Enforcement Discretion
NOTICE DATE: August 13, 2019
NOTICE TYPE: M-A081319-01 Operations
SHORT DESCRIPTION: TCEQ Notice of Enforcement Discretion
INTENDED AUDIENCE: QSEs with Resources and Resource Entities
DAY/S AFFECTED: August 13, 2019 until further notice
LONG DESCRIPTION: The ERCOT Region continues to experience sustained state-wide record setting load. ERCOT expects significant high load for today’s afternoon peak due to continued high temperatures throughout the ERCOT Region. These conditions make it more likely that the ERCOT Region will experience a power emergency. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has communicated to ERCOT that, effective immediately, TCEQ will use its enforcement discretion for generating facilities to assist during these extreme temperatures. To maximize generation requested by ERCOT, TCEQ will exercise its enforcement discretion for exceedances of emission and operational limits of power generating facilities for generators that exceed air permit limits.
Any generating facility that expects to exceed its air permit limits to assist during these extreme temperatures shall provide a notice of this action to Kelly Cook (kelly.cook@tceq.texas.gov), Director of Critical Infrastructure Division for TCEQ. Unless TCEQ provides notice otherwise, the period of enforcement discretion will continue until ERCOT provides a Market Notice declaring that the enforcement discretion has ended....
http://www.ercot.com/services/comm/mkt_notices/archives/4252