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Texas’ power grid, operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), now has two virtual power plants qualified and able to provide power to it.
Customers in the pilot program are paid for selling their surplus energy to increase power-grid reliability.
Tesla Electric customers in Houston and Dallas with Powerwall storage systems in their homes, in a first, have agreed to sell their surplus power back to the Texas electric grid, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) said on Wednesday. This additional source of dispatchable power for the grid comes as a part of a pilot project which aggregates several small energy devices, like battery storage systems and controllable electric vehicle (EV) chargers, into a single resource that can collectively reduce demand or feed power to the grid, Reuters said.
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Texas regulators rejected SWEPCO's application to build renewable generation resources at the site of a coal plant that ceased operations in March.
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SPP approved the scope of a team formed to address resource adequacy challenges and endorsed the group’s plans for dealing with resource accreditation.