ERCOT and PUC Actions Don’t Match Words on Grid Reliability

Six months after emergency conditions and near-rolling outages, ERCOT tells the PUC that storage and demand response could “very well solve the problem.” So where’s the action to get it?

Photo Credit: Courtesy of ERCOT

On the evening of Sept. 6 last year, ERCOT declared an Energy Emergency Alert for the first time since February 2021. Frequency dropped to dangerous levels, and ERCOT was close to ordering rolling outages. But batteries surged to an all-time record, narrowly staving off a catastrophe.

On Sept. 7, I posed a series of questio…