ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) ride-through requirements

Low-voltage ride-through, High-voltage ride-through for the United States. Every breakpoint below is read from the code itself, and carries the clause it came from — so you can check it, not just cite it.

2Envelopes
LVRT · HVRTEvents
Transmission Connection level
LVRT

What is the low-voltage ride-through envelope for ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy)?

The plant must ride through for any voltage that stays on or above this envelope. The envelope holds 0 pu from t = 0 to 150 ms; then ramps linearly from 0 pu at 150 ms to 0.9 pu at 1.75 s; then 0.9 pu from 1.75 s onward — the last band the envelope defines, with no stated end time.

The clause states this boundary as a line; intermediate points are interpolated between its stated vertices.

Applies to Transmission IBR with SGIA executed before 1 Aug 2024

ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) — low-voltage ride-through envelopeERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) low-voltage ride-through envelope. The plant must ride through for any voltage that stays on or above the line; below it, the envelope no longer applies. Logarithmic time axis from 0.01 s to 10 s; linear voltage axis in per-unit. The first band applies from the instant of the event (t = 0). The envelope holds 0 pu from t = 0 to 150 ms; then ramps linearly from 0 pu at 150 ms to 0.9 pu at 1.75 s; then 0.9 pu from 1.75 s onward — the last band the envelope defines, with no stated end time (drawn as an open dashed tail).ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) — low-voltage ride-through envelopenominal 1.00 pu0.010.11100.000.200.400.600.801.001.20Time from event start (s, log scale) · first band applies from t = 0Voltage (pu)0.9 puMUST RIDE THROUGHmust ride through on or above the lineopen — no stated end time
Low-voltage ride-through envelope for ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy). Time runs on a logarithmic axis, so the ramp — a straight line in real time — only looks curved here. Scroll the chart sideways for the rest of the time axis →
Low-voltage ride-through breakpoints for ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy)
From To Voltage Between the points
0 150 ms 0 pu Held flat
150 ms 1.75 s 0 → 0.9 pu Ramps linearly
1.75 s no stated end 0.9 pu Held flat
The clause this came from

ERCOT Nodal Operating Guides Section 2.9.1.2 (applies where the SGIA was executed before 1 Aug 2024): V=0 to 0.15 s then the defined ramp V(t)=0.5625t-0.084375 reaching 0.90 pu at 1.75 s. The code defines a linear recovery ramp; the vertices are read from the clause and the chart draws the segment between them.

HVRT

What is the high-voltage ride-through envelope for ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy)?

The plant must ride through for any voltage that stays on or below this envelope. The envelope holds 1.2 pu from t = 0 to 200 ms; then 1.175 pu from 200 ms to 500 ms; then 1.15 pu from 500 ms to 1 s; then 1.1 pu from 1 s onward — the last band the envelope defines, with no stated end time.

Every breakpoint is stated in the clause cited below.

Applies to Transmission IBR with SGIA executed before 1 Aug 2024

ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) — high-voltage ride-through envelopeERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) high-voltage ride-through envelope. The plant must ride through for any voltage that stays on or below the line; above it, the envelope no longer applies. Logarithmic time axis from 0.01 s to 5 s; linear voltage axis in per-unit. The first band applies from the instant of the event (t = 0). The envelope holds 1.2 pu from t = 0 to 200 ms; then 1.175 pu from 200 ms to 500 ms; then 1.15 pu from 500 ms to 1 s; then 1.1 pu from 1 s onward — the last band the envelope defines, with no stated end time (drawn as an open dashed tail).ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) — high-voltage ride-through envelopenominal 1.00 pu0.010.110.951.001.051.101.151.201.25Time from event start (s, log scale) · first band applies from t = 0Voltage (pu)1.1 puMUST RIDE THROUGHmust ride through on or below the lineopen — no stated end time
High-voltage ride-through envelope for ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy). Time runs on a logarithmic axis. Scroll the chart sideways for the rest of the time axis →
High-voltage ride-through breakpoints for ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy)
From To Voltage Between the points
0 200 ms 1.2 pu Held flat
200 ms 500 ms 1.175 pu Held flat
500 ms 1 s 1.15 pu Held flat
1 s no stated end 1.1 pu Held flat
The clause this came from

ERCOT Nodal Operating Guides Section 2.9.1.2 high-voltage table: 1.20 pu / 0.2 s, 1.175 pu / 0.5 s, 1.15 pu / 1.0 s, then 1.10 pu.

Scope

Who does ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) bind, and since when?

Transmission IBR with SGIA executed before 1 Aug 2024. Binds resources whose SGIA was executed before 1 Aug 2024.

These figures are a reading aid, not legal advice. Grid codes are reissued: verify against the current edition before you design to them.

Digitised operating parameters beyond ride-through — droop, reactive capability, operating ranges — are published for 36 of the 66 codes in this atlas, not yet for ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy). That is a gap on this site, not a statement that ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) sets none — the atlas hub marks the codes that carry them.

Curve data last checked against the code on — 66 standards, 130 envelopes, published by bess.engineer under CC BY 4.0.

Questions

Questions this page answers about ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy)

Does ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) require ride-through, or only that the plant does not trip?
Ride-through. Every envelope on this page is a performance duty the plant must meet, not a protection-setting no-trip boundary — they are different obligations. That is what these curves are; they are not everything ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) contains. The requirement sentence under each chart says which side of the curve is the compliant one.
Are the numbers on this page taken from ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) itself?
Yes. Every breakpoint is read from the code, and each envelope carries the clause it came from, quoted in full under its chart — so you can check the figure against the standard rather than cite it from this page.
Which events are charted for ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy)?
ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) is charted here with 2 envelopes — low-voltage ride-through, high-voltage ride-through (LVRT, HVRT). No frequency envelope is charted here — check ERCOT (NOG 2.9.1.2 legacy) itself before concluding it sets none.
Related

Ride-through, in context.

An envelope is a compliance boundary; understanding why it exists is a different question. The ride-through and grid-forming entries cover the engineering, and the Engineering Foundations course builds it from the physics up.

Also for the United States: ERCOT (NOG 2.6.2.1), IEEE 1547-2018 Cat III, IEEE 2800-2022, NERC PRC-024-4 (ERCOT), NERC PRC-024-4 (no-trip), NERC PRC-024-4 (Western), and 5 more