How to Set Up Texas Energy Alerts for Your Facility

Step 1: Define What You Are Monitoring

Texas energy risk comes from three sources. Before setting up alerts, decide which matters most to your operations: ERCOT price volatility, weather demand risk, or natural gas supply pressure.

If your facility has real-time pricing exposure, direct pass-through contracts, or index-based procurement, ERCOT price spikes directly affect your energy costs. If your facility consumes significant electricity for cooling or production, weather-driven demand events create both price risk and potential supply constraints.

Step 2: Choose Your Alert Threshold

Any risk change: Alerts when conditions shift from Low to Medium or Medium to High. Best for active procurement decisions where early information has direct value.

Medium and above: Alerts only when ERCOT risk reaches elevated levels. Appropriate for operations teams that only need to act when conditions become material.

High only: Alerts only at maximum risk. Appropriate for operations with limited flexibility that only need to act at extreme conditions.

Step 3: Configure Delivery Channels

Email is best for informational awareness and documentation. Email alerts create a record of when risk conditions occurred, useful for post-event cost analysis and reporting.

SMS is essential for time-sensitive response. If your team needs to take action within 30–60 minutes of a risk event — adjusting load, contacting your energy manager, or deferring operations — SMS is the only channel that reliably reaches people during off-hours or away from their desk.

Step 4: Test Before You Need It

Before an ERCOT event creates real operational pressure, verify your alert system is working: use the test alert button to confirm email delivery, verify SMS delivery to each configured phone number, and confirm the right team members are on the distribution list.

A Texas energy alert that works but does not drive action is as useless as one that does not deliver. The test run ensures your team has agreed on the response before the alert fires in a real event.