Market Guides

The market guides, based upon the ERCOT protocols, serve as detailed reference documents for market participants. The guides act as mechanisms for establishing and adjusting market and operating processes.

In This Section

  • Find the reference guide for commercial operations; and locate or submit requests for revisions.
  • Read about ERCOT's standards for secure data transport, including the North American Energy Standards Board Electronic Delivery Mechanism and ERCOT's alternative to FTP.
  • Find the responsibilities and processes associated with load profiling; and find or submit requests for changes.
  • Find the nodal guide that describes how ERCOT will interact with qualified scheduling entities, transmission operators, resource entities and load serving entities in the nodal market; and find or submit request for revisions.
  • Locate ERCOT processes and procedures for reliable daily grid operation and emergency actions.
  • View the guides that provide ERCOT stakeholders and market participants with information and documentation concerning the ERCOT transmission planning process.
  • Get the reference guide for the retail market's rules and structure; and find or submit requests for changes.
  • Locate the standards and procedures for ERCOT-polled settlement (EPS) metering; and find or submit requests for changes.
  • Find the implementation guides for the Texas Standard Electronic Transaction procedures; proposed and adopted changes; and the business process lifecycle for retail transactions.
  • Find inactive Market Guides and related documents.