# ERCOT forecast Documentation

> Documentation for ERCOT forecast

## Guides
- [Modeling Approach](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/modeling-approach.md): Overview of our forecast modeling approach.
- [Production Cost Model](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/models.md): Modo's tool for making power price projections
- [Using Our Forecast](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/using-our-forecast.md): How to utilize our forecasting outputs.
- [Overview](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/ercot.md): An overview of the inputs, modeling and outputs, specific to the ERCOT implementation of our forecast
- [Generation](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/ercot-generation.md): How we model generation capacity and output in ERCOT.
- [Transmission](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/ercot-transmission.md): Overview of our ERCOT transmission modeling.
- [Backtest](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/backtest-1.md): How we make sure we can stand behind our numbers
- [FAQs](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/faqs.md)
- [Overview](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/overview.md): An overview of the inputs, modelling and outputs, specific to the NEM implementation of our forecast
- [Running a forecast](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/running-a-forecast.md): Configuring a custom dispatch model run
- [Fundamentals Model](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/fundamentals-model.md)
- [Volatility](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/volatility.md): How we model volatility in the most volatile energy market in the world.
- [Weather Years](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/weather-years.md): What weather years mean in the context of our model, and how we chose a weather year.
- [Unit Commitment Model](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/model-architecture.md): This is how we model unit commitment
- [Demand](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/demand.md): How we model demand.
- [Generation and Storage](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/generation.md): How we model generation capacities and output in the NEM.
- [Thermal Generation](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/thermal-short-run-marginal-costs.md): How we model the varied bidding behaviour of thermal generation
- [Commodity Prices](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/commodity-prices.md): How we model commodity prices
- [Renewable Generation](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/renewable-load-factors.md): How we model renewable generation
- [Reservoir Hydro](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/reservoir-hydro.md): How we model reservoir hydro dispatch
- [Storage](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/storage.md): How we model the complex bidding behaviour of storage
- [Transmission](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/transmission.md): How we model transmission in the NEM.
- [FCAS](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/fcas.md): How we model FCAS market activity
- [FCAS Islanding](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/fcas-islanding.md)
- [Scenario Modelling](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/high-scenario.md): Central, low and high scenarios
- [Administered pricing](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/administered-pricing.md): This is how we model administered pricing in the NEM forecast model.
- [Backtest](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/backtest.md)
- [Dispatch Model](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/battery-dispatch-model.md): How do we dispatch a battery against a price signal?
- [Co-optimised Energy and FCAS Dispatch](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/energy-and-fcas-market-revenues-and-saturation.md): Our battery dispatch tool creates a charge/discharge schedule from wholesale prices & handles ancillary services
- [Cap Contracts](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/cap-contracts.md)
- [Dispatch Strategies](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/dispatch-strategies.md): Energy only or Energy & FCAS?
- [Curtailment](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/curtailment.md): Capturing sub-region pricing.
- [Marginal Loss Factors](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/marginal-loss-factors.md): How we model MLFs, and how they're integrated into the dispatch model
- [Max Annual Cycling](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/max-annual-cycling.md)
- [Battery degradation](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/battery-degradation.md): As batteries cycle, they degrade. This means the amount of energy they store reduces over time.
- [Calibration to Index](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/calibration-to-index.md): Taking our fundamentals model back to reality
- [Solar Co-location](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/solar-co-location.md): Solar and BESS assets have complimentary dispatch profiles which make them perfect for co-location
- [FAQs](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/docs/faqs-1.md)

## Changelog
- [Welcome to ERCOT forecast](https://modelling.modoenergy.com/changelog/welcome-to-ercot-forecast.md)