Texas Large Load Queue Swells To Over 200 Gigawatts: Grid Roundup #81

ERCOT will provide updates on the large load interconnection process and the PUC will consider Industrial Consumers' request for rehearing; batteries stretch out as thermal outage season picks up

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In this issue:

• ERCOT to tell PUC that the large load queue is now over 200 gigawatts, provide additional details about large load interconnection process;

• PUC to consider Industrial Consumers’ ask for rehearing of Entergy’s $2.4 billion cost cap case;

• Outage season now in full effect with over 22 gigawatts of thermal plants offline; batteries stretch out duration.

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ERCOT to tell PUC that the large load queue is now over 200 gigawatts

ERCOT’s Kristi Hobbs will make a presentation to the PUC this morning that shows 205 gigawatts of load in the interconnection queue. Only last year, there were 56 gigawatts. Over 70% of the queue is data centers and crypto mining – last year about half of the queue – is down to a nearly imperceptible sliver at 1.3%.