Advancing reliable, affordable clean energy for Texas

ALERT: Efforts in Austin to restrict energy generation are projected to raise Texans' power bills by up to $115 billion.

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TEBA Affiliate Members in Texas

The Texas Energy Buyers Alliance (TEBA) is working with small and large employers across Texas to reduce energy costs, protect the state’s competitive energy market, and ensure our power infrastructure meets the state’s future needs.

TEBA includes more than 260 small and large employers across Texas. Our members employ hundreds of thousands of employees in thousands of facilities here — we’re committed to strengthening the ERCOT grid, lowering power bills for all customers, propelling Texas’ economy, creating jobs, spurring innovation, and extending Texas’ clean energy leadership.

TEBA members came to Texas and grew in Texas thanks in part to our state’s dependable, business-friendly energy market. We count on the reliable, low-cost electricity that Texas creates through abundant energy resources, traditional generation, and nation-leading clean energy industries.

Texas’ thirst for electricity is growing quickly, due to factors such as population growth, oil and gas industry advancements, and new industries such as advanced manufacturing, hydrogen production and data centers. Peak use on the ERCOT grid grew more between 2021 to 2023 than it did from 2006 to 2021.

Without more energy from reliable, affordable, and clean sources — including solar power, battery storage, and wind energy, as well as clean technologies such as enhanced geothermal, advanced nuclear, and carbon capture and storage — skyrocketing energy needs could lead to unaffordable electric prices and interruptions in service for employers, families, and communities. TEBA and its member companies are working to increase all forms of electric generation, ensuring Texas has a reliable grid that keeps prices low and meets future needs.

Solar power, battery storage, and wind energy are helping Texas meet record electricity demand and improve reliability — especially on hot summer afternoons. They also are reducing energy prices — saving Texans billions of dollars. By doubling down on the state’s clean energy leadership, Texans will see lower bills and increased reliability.

Let's increase reliability and lower bills for employers and families.

Output

Solar power, battery storage, and wind energy provide about a third of all energy consumed in ERCOT— and provide even more power (about 36%) during peak demand hours.
On June 18, 2024, renewables provided almost 50% of the grid’s on-peak electricity because solar output correlates well with much of the system peak.

Reliability

For the first half of 2024, coal and natural gas generators made up almost two-thirds of all forced or unplanned outages — solar, battery storage, and wind help offset those outages.
Coal and natural gas plant failures, along with frozen gas infrastructure, were the primary cause of the catastrophic power outages during Winter Storm Uri in February 2021; more renewables — especially wind power and battery storage fueled by solar power — would have prevented many of those outages.

Savings & Benefits

Texas’ is the nation’s clean energy leader.
Our state’s solar, battery, and wind energy resources reduced wholesale electricity costs by about $21.6 billion between 2010 and 2022 — and by about $11 billion in 2021 and 2022 alone.
From June to September 2023 — just four months — renewables reduced wholesale electricity costs by about $900 million.
Between 2025 and 2040, solar, battery storage, and wind are projected to save Texans about $115 billion in wholesale electricity costs — provided the state does not slow the development of these resources.
More than two-thirds of Texas counties either currently host or are expected to soon host at least one of Texas’ more than 1,000 clean energy and/or energy storage projects.
Over their lifetimes, clean energy projects are expected to yield between $12.5 and $15.9 billion in local taxes — without increasing costs on local communities — and $11.8 and $21.7 billion in landowner lease payments.

Clean Energy Provides Important Resource Diversity, Reduces Costs, and Contributes to Reliability

Our Key Objectives

Enable employers to procure advanced dispatchable, clean energy
Protect Texas' competitive energy market, ensuring customers are paying the lowest price for only the electricity they use.
Create the infrastructure Texas needs to move affordable electricity from where it is generated to where it is needed
Ensure that new policies do not create an unfair playing field for any form of energy
Eliminate and prevent hurdles that interfere with employers' market-driven decisions about how to procure electricity

Without solar power, battery storage, and wind energy, skyrocketing electricity costs could have cut deeply into companies’ bottom lines — and, during energy emergencies, threatened to put them out of business. We need all forms of clean, dispatchable power to enable this generational opportunity to grow our state’s innovative 21st century economy.

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Texas employers need the reliable, affordable power that a variety of clean, dispatchable energy resources provide. TEBA and its members are advancing pro-growth energy policies that increase reliability, reduce costs, meet future demand, and catalyze our state’s clean energy leadership.

TEBA Affiliates are Texas companies that care about reliable, low-cost, clean power. As an Affiliate, you will get updates about TEBA policy initiatives, legislation, and potential regulations that could affect your energy costs. We also will add your name to the growing list of businesses that are joining together to support reliable, affordable clean energy for Texas employers.