ERCOT's "New Era" of Growth Needs Clean Energy

Texas will need an all-of-the-above approach, including renewables, storage, transmission, and demand-side resources to meet high projected demand growth

This month, ERCOT released a staggering projection: the agency says 62 gigawatts of new demand could plug into Texas’ grid by 2030. 

It looks like a decimal point got lost somewhere. The state’s all-time demand record is 85.5 gigawatts, and it took a century to get there. ERCOT says that could jump 72% in a little more than five years.

Texas simply isn’t …