99 Gigawatts Ain’t a Problem: Grid Roundup #42

ERCOT shows 99 gigawatts in the large load queue as the Senate prepares to hear bill about large loads Thursday; Special ERCOT Board meeting tomorrow; ERCOT considers how to absorb ADER pilot.

In this issue:

• Senate Business & Commerce Committee to hear Senate Bill 6 on large load interconnections on Thursday as ERCOT reports it now has 99 gigawatts of large load interconnection requests — 15,000 megawatts entered the interconnection queue last month;

• Special ERCOT Board Meeting tomorrow to approve or deny $50 million in ratepayer funds to move, connect, and use CenterPoint’s “mobile” generators near a transmission constraint in San Antonio;

• Small customers may be pushed out of one of the few avenues for earning market revenue for residential demand response as ERCOT considers how to take over the ADER pilot.

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