# ERCOT — news releases — connector definition (see docs/connectors/ercot.md)
id: ercot
name: "ERCOT — news releases"
domain: www.ercot.com
kind: utility
mode: html
priority: 2
license: "Public information of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas; facts and links only"
attribution: "Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ercot.com)"
homepage: https://www.ercot.com/
notes: "Texas grid operator. Releases on large-load interconnection (Batch Zero / PGRR145), long-term load forecasts and PUCT approvals. Pages carry no date markup: the MMDDYYYY prefix of the slug is the release date. The Large Load Interconnection Status report itself lives on MIS paths that robots.txt disallows (/misapp, /misdownload) and is NOT fetched."
coverage: { countries: ["US"] }
fetch:
  level: 1
  maxLevel: 2
  rpm: 10
  concurrency: 1
  respectRobots: true
  maxCreditsPerRun: 0
discovery:
  seeds:
    - { url: "/news/releases", group: seed, pageType: news_index }
  # the index shows the current year; ?year=YYYY lists earlier years (backfill)
  pagination: { template: "?year={n}", start: 2024, max: 2026 }
  follow: ["^https://www\\.ercot\\.com/news/release/[a-z0-9-]+$"]
  include: ["/news/release/[a-z0-9-]+$"]
  exclude: ["/content/", "/misapp", "/misdownload"]
  classify:
    - { pattern: "/news/release/[a-z0-9-]+$", group: newsroom, pageType: press_release, priority: 70 }
schedule:
  newsroom: daily
  seed: daily
extractors:
  news:
    pageTypes: [press_release, project_announcement, expansion, acquisition, construction_update, planning_document, power_infrastructure, utility_announcement, closure, cloud_region, financial_disclosure, facility_page, operator_page, unknown]
    kind: news_event
    parser: news_press_release_v1
    params: { keepText: true, urlDate: "/news/release/(?<m>\\d{2})(?<d>\\d{2})(?<y>\\d{4})-" }