Utilities need to evolve more quickly to relieve pressure on the Texas grid from growth and weather, San Antonio utility CEO Rudy Garza said.
why it hadn’t also included the coal and natural gas plant outages in North Texas that day as well. ERCOT officials responded that will be in their next report.
Texas has continued to face unprecedented levels of energy demand this summer due to the state’s fast growth combined withPeak demand on Sept. 6 hit 82,705 megawatts, which was lower than its all-time peak demand record set in August, but the highest September record ever recorded by ERCOT until two days later, when peak demand hit 84,182 megawatts.
Given that those pressures on the grid are unlikely to ease anytime soon, utilities will need to evolve, Garza said. That evolution will include the faster adoption of battery storage, hiring for more technical jobs and getting more advanced computer software, he said.Garza added he’d like to see the funds from the federal Inflation Reduction Act distributed more quickly to local municipalities to help utilities like CPS Energy when cost is the limiting factor.
“Understanding exactly how the projects that we plan to do down here in San Antonio are actually going to be assisted by these available buckets of money at the federal level is still really hard to get our arms around,” he said.
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