FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2, 2026
ERCOT Board Approves Cutting-Edge Energy Attribute Certificate Program Proposed by TEBA
AUSTIN — Today, the grid operator that manages Texas’ electricity system approved a transformative new initiative: a voluntary, market-based Energy Attribute Certificate (EAC) system designed to accelerate advanced energy development and economic growth across the state.
The new program will provide more granular energy accounting than existing registries, giving both large and small energy customers new opportunities to invest in innovative energy resources and market products. By increasing transparency, credibility, and revenue opportunities, EACs can help bring new buyer-driven energy generation online.
“Thank you to ERCOT for enacting a novel EAC system that will make it much easier for customers to support new energy technologies and aggregate these technology options to meet growing loads,” said Nidhi Thakar, Senior Vice President for Policy at CEBA, the Corporate Energy Buyers Association. “ERCOT’s program can serve as a national model for other EAC registries seeking to provide more granularity.”
EACs are tracking instruments that provide customers with detailed information about where and when their electricity was generated and the resources used to produce it, including the ability to verify those attributes on an hourly basis. The Texas Energy Buyers Alliance (TEBA), the Texas chapter of CEBA, proposed creating the voluntary EAC program for the Texas grid last year.
The approval marks an important step toward creating a more transparent, flexible, and customer-driven energy marketplace in Texas.
“EAC’s will provide a mechanism to supercharge the growth of advanced energy technologies on the grid — including new nuclear resources, demand flexibility, carbon capture projects, higher-impact battery storage, and other energy solutions — by providing transparent information about the energy those resources create,” said Bryn Baker, TEBA’s state director.
This new, voluntary, digital tracking system can apply to any energy-generating resource on the ERCOT grid, making it far more comprehensive than ERCOT’s current registry for Renewable Energy Credits, which only applies to renewable energy generators and doesn’t include detailed attribute information.
EACs show, hour by hour, every watt of energy produced by every power plant that participates in the program. They validate the energy investments that consumers make by proving that new generation facilities are producing the power buyers are paying for.
“These instruments provide a way to validate customer-driven transactions, which helps bring on new generation at a time of growing power demand across Texas,” Baker said.
The Texas Energy Buyers Alliance (TEBA) is a business trade association that activates a community of energy customers and partners to advance reliable, affordable, clean energy for Texas. TEBA is a state chapter of the Corporate Energy Buyers Association. TEBA’s members include more than 200 companies that have more than $34 trillion in market capitalization as well as thousands of facilities and hundreds of thousands of employees across Texas. For more information, visit txenergybuyers.org.
For more information, please contact:
Susan Buehler, sbuehler@CEBA.org