The ERCOT Board is meeting today. Their meeting comes on the heels of six straight days of batteries producing over 3,300 megawatts of power; six of the top seven spots on the storage record page, including the #1 spot of over 4,000 megawatts, are from this month.
And yet ERCOT still wants to exclude battery storage from the rollout of the new Dispatchable Reliability Reserve Service (DRRS).
I won’t be on Substack Chat during the meeting today. Instead, here’s a preview of what to expect from their meeting (with further details below).
Here’s what to look for at today’s meeting:
ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas to push back against misinformation on interconnecting the Texas grid with neighboring grids;
ERCOT Staff will also present options for Extra High Voltage transmission;
Solar and storage continue their exponential growth;
2024 was the sixth hottest summer in Texas history, according to ERCOT; yet power prices and ancillary service costs were “historically low;” and
The ongoing disagreement between CPS Energy and ERCOT on retiring their 60-year-old gas plants.
