Texas Grid Roundup #10, April 30, 2024

CenterPoint's $2 billion resiliency plan, PUC's energy efficiency questions, ERCOT reliability standard meeting Thursday, and how EPA's new rules on coal & gas plants will impact ERCOT

W.A. Parish Plant. Photo Credit: RM VM / Wikimedia Commons

Finally! The PUC has opened a docket with a list of energy efficiency questions, hopefully foreshadowing a move to scale up the use of demand side resources to increase reliability and lower consumer costs. As I reported earlier, the utilities proposed a new thermostat program and retail electric providers filed comments to support it. The PUC requests comments on that by tomorrow, Wednesday, May 1. 

Also below, you’ll find information and thoughts on:

• the new EPA rules on coal plants, and what they mean for Texas and ERCOT;

• the technical conference on the establishment of a reliability standard;

• CenterPoint Energy’s three-year, $2.3 billion resiliency plan; and

• ERCOT’s annual report.

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CenterPoint filed its $2.3 billion resiliency plan