Customer Engagement & Experience
Molly Glick
Molly Glick
Energy Central Team
·Posted in Customer Engagement & Experience
Sat, Jul 25

NEWS: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is holding state officials to their ratepayer priorities.

  • The background: In June, Abbott ordered the Texas PUC and ERCOT to protect residential customers from data center costs. Now, “they are putting that direction into action,” the governor said in a statement.

  • Progress report: ERCOT and the state PUC are 1) making data centers pay for new transmission 2) preventing these facilities from “diverting existing power” and 3) doubling down on long-term infrastructure planning, among other measures.

  • What's next: TX officials want to “clarify” their authority to add more reliability requirements for data centers—and get more info on their water and electricity use.

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