Other Groups

The ERCOT Critical Infrastructure Working Group (CIPWG) serves as a vehicle to facilitate and enable ERCOT entities to secure their critical assets, achieve compliance with relevant security standards, and maintain their compliance.

The Gas Electric Working Group (GEWG) serves as a forum for ERCOT, its stakeholders, and natural gas pipelines who serve natural gas-fired generation in the ERCOT region to engage in open dialog on issues pertaining to both electric generation and natural gas pipeline operations.

The Grid Resilience Working Group (GRWG) is responsible for assessing risks that have a low probability of occurrence but potential high consequence of impact to the ERCOT System if they were to occur. GRWG is further responsible for considering and evaluating practices that may address these risks.

The Regional Planning Group (RPG) provides a forum for discussion, input and comment on issues related to planning the ERCOT system for reliable and efficient operation.

The Resource Integration Working Group (RIWG) discusses the ERCOT interconnection process for generation to the ERCOT transmission system.

The ERCOT Technology Working Group (TWG) is a discussion forum for information sharing, reviewing, analyzing, developing best practices, and enhancing information and operational technology systems and software applications used by the Market Participants and ERCOT to interact with each other.