Observed arrival · 2026-11-01
Switchyard’s live ERCOT headroom tracker
A live page showing Texas grid demand, available capacity, reserve margin, and the day’s tightest forecast.
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- Texans checking current ERCOT grid conditions
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- The page labels conditions normal, tight, or critical and warns that its preliminary ERCOT figures are not for settlement or operational use.
Field notes
The page defines headroom as the difference between available power-plant capacity and current electricity use, and expresses that gap as a reserve margin relative to demand. Its example reports 51.3 GW of demand against 68.2 GW of available capacity. The tracker says it reads ERCOT feeds and refreshes about every minute; it also cautions that the preliminary figures are not for settlement or operational use.
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