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ERCOT Forecasts Significant Demand Increases, But Less than Previous Predictions

ERCOT Forecasts Significant Demand Increases, But Less than Previous Predictions

by R.A. Dyer | Apr 23, 2025 | ERCOT

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas outlines alternative forecasting methodology that projects big load forecasts, but less than previous predictions. ________________________________________________ ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas, in presentations this month to key state legislative...
Demand Growth from Data Centers, Crypto Operations Continue Vexing Grid Planners

Demand Growth from Data Centers, Crypto Operations Continue Vexing Grid Planners

by R.A. Dyer | Sep 27, 2024 | ERCOT

How much power will artificial intelligence facilities consume over the long term? How should the state’s principal grid operator handle that demand? Will enough generation show up to meet it? The ERCOT organization and state regulators continue grappling with these...
PUC Adopts Reliability Standard for ERCOT, Orders Increase to Value of Lost Load

PUC Adopts Reliability Standard for ERCOT, Orders Increase to Value of Lost Load

by R.A. Dyer | Sep 4, 2024 | ERCOT, Generation

Approved Aug, 29 by commissioners, the new standard is intended to give the agency better visibility going forward on the ERCOT system’s reliability needs and could open the door to future reforms. ________________________________________________ As per a legislative...
Seventeen Electric Generators Selected to Receive Billions of Dollars in State-Subsidized Loans

Seventeen Electric Generators Selected to Receive Billions of Dollars in State-Subsidized Loans

by R.A. Dyer | Sep 4, 2024 | ERCOT, Generation

The projects were selected from among 72 applications for the PUC to consider under the state’s low-interest “In-ERCOT Loan Program,” which is part of the Texas Energy Fund established after Winter Storm Uri in 2023. ________________________________________________...
PUC Considering Permian Basin Reliability Plan with Cost Estimates Exceeding $10 billion

PUC Considering Permian Basin Reliability Plan with Cost Estimates Exceeding $10 billion

by R.A. Dyer | Aug 14, 2024 | ERCOT

Interested parties now have submitted 19 sets of responses to staff questions about the proposed Reliability Plan for the Permian Basin, which could be adopted by the PUC in September. ________________________________________________ On July 25, 2004, ERCOT filed with...
Seventeen Electric Generators Selected to Receive Billions of Dollars in State-Subsidized Loans

Gov. Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick Call for Expansion of Multi-Billion-Dollar Texas Energy Fund

by OCSC | Jul 2, 2024 | ERCOT, Generation

The state’s top two elected officials warned that the state’s peak power needs could reach 150,000 megawatts by 2030. By comparison, generators currently can handle less than 85,000 MW of peak demand today, they said. ________________________________________________...
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