NEWS - Texas Energy Buyers Alliance

Dawn James Named Inaugural Executive Director of the Texas Energy Buyers Alliance

We’re very excited to welcome Dawn James as TEBA’s new executive director! For more than 25 years, she has helped shape critical decisions and conversations in energy, technology, business strategy, and infrastructure.

“This is a critical moment for Texas. We face unprecedented electricity demand growth, but the opportunities that come with that growth are even greater,” James said. “By advancing smart, durable energy policies, we can meet these challenges and cement the state’s economic and energy leadership for another century.”

09/21/2026

Industry warns of blackouts, economic woes if Texas overreacts to data center, transmission line anger

Texas needs new transmission capacity to expand and strengthen the power grid. State officials in charge of the power grid and business leaders are increasingly warning about the enormous consequences of inaction or delay, particularly in the face of surging power demand from growing economic sectors. TEBA commends Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders for working to provide greater transparency about new data centers seeking to connect to the grid in or near local communities. State officials must also continue advancing critical grid projects needed to ensure reliable, affordable electricity to all Texas households and businesses. Regulatory uncertainty threatens all major energy customers — jeopardizing further economic investment in the state. And transmission is crucial to connecting that economic

08/28/2026

Texas Energy Buyers Alliance Joins Texans for Responsible Infrastructure Investment

TEBA is happy to be part of this vital coalition of Texas business leaders who understand the importance of investing in our state’s transmission system. Texans need reliable, affordable power, and as TEBA’s Bryn Baker said, “Our members are committed to paying their fair share for a system that will benefit the state for decades to come.”

08/28/2026

New Businesses Commit to Covering Their Transmission Costs in Texas 

The Lone Star State can put downward pressure on Texans’ transmission costs — and ensure new large energy customers are paying their fair share — by adopting a minimum transmission charge (MTC) for major electricity users, according to a new study from the Texas Energy Buyers Alliance (TEBA).

07/30/2026

Without Renewables, Texans Could Pay $3 Billion More Per Year for Power.

Constraining new solar and wind resources could cost the U.S. more than $120 billion over a seven-year period, according to a major new CEBA study. Here are the Texas-specific findings: Restrictions could force Texans in ERCOT to pay up to 22% more for electricity. All told, constraints on new solar and wind could cost American households more than $81 billion in electricity and natural gas costs over the seven-year period. Click here for the full study and click below for ERCOT findings. Read More

06/11/2026

ERCOT Board Approves Cutting-Edge Energy Attribute Certificate Program Proposed by TEBA

The ERCOT Board of Directors voted unanimously to create a voluntary system of Energy Attribute Certificates, or EACs. TEBA proposed creating this system last year.

An EAC is a tracking instrument that allows consumers to know, with granular detail, where their electricity came from, who produced it, and which resources were used to do so.

This voluntary program will create vital transparency on the Texas power grid, and it works for every form of generation. EACs also will make it easier for customers to support new technologies, helping unleash a new wave of innovative projects to help meet the state’s growing energy needs.

06/03/2026

Texas Needs Energy Transparency. Energy Attribute Certificates Can Deliver It.

Imagine walking into an H-E-B, saying what you want, handing over some money, and getting a bag of groceries without fully knowing what’s in it.

That’s akin to what it’s like for employers and other big energy consumers in Texas, who have limited transparency and ability to track all of the sources of energy they buy.

In response, TEBA has proposed the creation of Energy Attribute Certificates, or EACs, which tell electricity consumers where their power is coming from with granular detail. The proposal provides more comprehensive information and tracking to energy customers, and it could unleash a new wave of innovative energy projects.

05/20/2026

ERCOT’s Batch Study Process: What It Is, Why It Matters, and What’s Missing

Across Texas, big prospective energy users are telling ERCOT that they want to put an unprecedented amount of load onto the state’s power grid. That means ERCOT has to figure out which of those loads are real and how the state will serve them. To do so, the grid manager is in the process of implementing what’s known as the batch study process.

Learn more about how the batch process works, where there are gaps, and how ERCOT can close them.

04/13/2026

Improving ERCOT’s Batch Study Process — Testimony to the Texas House State Affairs Committee

TEBA’s Marshall Coover was among the invited speakers on April 9 for a hearing of the Texas House State Affairs Committee on “the development of data centers in Texas, including its importance to global competitiveness and national security.” Marshall focused specifically on the new batch study process, which will help ERCOT review the unprecedented volume of load interconnection requests that the grid manager is now considering. Here’s what he said: “Chairman, members, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. My name is Marshall Coover, and I’m here on behalf of the Texas Energy Buyers Alliance. TEBA represents a broad coalition of energy consumers; from large-scale traditional manufacturers and heavy industry, to retailers and hyperscalers, to small “main

04/09/2026

It’s called DRRS. It should include batteries.

Texas is rightly renowned for its competitive energy market. ERCOT’s unique structure ensures that, for the most part, Texas consumers only pay for the electricity they use. And market forces create price signals that prompt the private sector to build the generation capacity Texas needs to power our economy. ERCOT also maintains what are known as ancillary services, which deliver additional energy when demand rises or the grid needs it. These energy boosters play an essential role, maintaining grid reliability without preempting the market forces that have made our state the U.S. energy leader. Now, the ERCOT Board of Directors is advancing what’s known as the Dispatchable Reliability Reserve Service (DRRS), a new ancillary service created by the Texas Legislature

03/20/2026

ERCOT’s “Batch” Process Is a Good One, but Must Not Trigger Delays

It’s no secret that ERCOT is racing to accommodate the booming energy demand that data centers, advanced manufacturers, and other 21st century industries will create. The question is how to do it – and how to make sure that needed, well-developed projects don’t get stuck in line. In the past, ERCOT has relied on a serial large-load evaluation framework, which evaluated one project at a time, reconsidering transmission and reliability assumptions as new projects came onto the grid. That process made sense when there were only a few dozen large-load projects in the queue. But now, there are well over 200 such projects, most seeking to serve industries such as AI that need huge amounts of electricity – and fast. ERCOT

02/16/2026

A New & Improved Way of Assessing Transmission Costs

The massive growth projections for Texas’s ERCOT power grid raise a vitally important question for the future of our grid and our economy: who should pay for the transmission improvements needed to deliver this electricity? The existing system of transmission cost allocation is known as the Four Coincident Peak (4CP) program. Through 4CP, large consumers pay for transmission costs based on four peak-use (“coincident”) periods during the summer. This system works well with existing users, in part because it encourages them to implement demand response strategies that reduce their use when energy is tight on the grid. But 4CP isn’t set up to allocate costs at the giant scale of new customers that are coming onto the grid — we

01/22/2026