The Public Utility Commission of Texas is rethinking the ways it forecasts the load that’s coming onto the ERCOT grid. TEBA filed comments last week urging the agency to focus on truly large consumers when forecasting demand — and we oppose giving the agency unchecked “discretion” to simply not count certain projects.
TEBA also has emphasized the need for more active and robust transmission planning to ensure that electricity is actually reaching the Texans who are counting on it. In our comments, we recommended that the PUC tweak its planning process to “filter out speculative projects and ensure that only committed loads are reflected in ERCOT’ s transmission planning forecasts.”