The Future of the Electric Grid in Texas

This new paper from researchers at the University of Houston regarding electricity demand growth in Texas makes a fair point that "...(behind the meter) on-site electricity generation through co-located generation facilities...are exacerbating system planning challenges, upsetting already strained supply chains for generation and storage equipment, and aggravating market, regulatory, and policy uncertainties." That's why "Consumer Regulated Electricity" or CRE is so valuable to Texas and other states facing similar challenges. CRE would allow private investors to create new, independent, competitive, and utility-scale utilities. Since these "CRE Utilities" would be new and competitive, they'd be highly innovative and find ways to bring new supplies of electricity to market faster. That's an opportunity that should be attractive to data centers, power project developers, policy makers, and of course the ratepayers who are trapped on the existing grids. Contact us to learn more about CRE and follow us right here on LinkedIn.

https://www.uh.edu/energy/_docs/_papers-reports/the-future-of-the-electric-grid-in-texas_uh.pdf