State Policy Roadmaps
Texas
The Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance (TAEBA; United's Texas state affiliate)'s resource, “Advanced Energy Creates Opportunities for Texas: A Policy Roadmap for Texas’ Governor," outlines how Texas’ Governor can continue national leadership to expand affordable advanced energy generation and storage, increase the capacity and efficiency of the state’s energy infrastructure through grid resilience technologies, provide greater transparency to avoid unnecessary costs; and promote customer-facing technologies to make energy more affordable for consumers across the state.
To achieve these goals, TAEBA’s recommendations for Texas’ Governor focus on these core tenets:
- Build it: Texas must continue expanding power generation and infrastructure to meet surging load growth. ERCOT projects tens of gigawatts of new demand by 2028, driven primarily by data centers, industrial electrification, and population growth. The Texas Energy Fund provides an important foundation, but its implementation must prioritize reliability and affordability.
- Make it Flexible: Today, TDUs are receiving near-automatic approval for major transmission and distribution spending, creating upward pressure on rates. As electricity demand grows, these costs will escalate without a disciplined framework requiring utilities to evaluate lower-cost solutions. Texas should direct TDUs to incorporate distributed resources. These solutions can often meet load growth more quickly and at lower total system cost than conventional substation upgrades or transformer replacements. Companies such as Base Power and others are already demonstrating that distributed resources can reduce feeder strain, defer capital upgrades, and improve resilience.
- Make it Affordable: Texas can reduce total system costs by using private investment, modern rate-design tools, and technology-neutral programs that empower customers.
- Increase Market and Data Transparency: ERCOT and the PUCT should expand access to timely, location-specific grid data such as hosting capacity maps, interconnection queue status updates, congestion cost trends, and metrics that track demand response and flexible-load participation. Making this information publicly available in standardized, open formats will improve system planning, reduce interconnection backlogs, and increase private-sector investment by giving developers clearer visibility into grid constraints and opportunities. Texas can adapt approaches to the ERCOT market structure to accelerate investment, improve grid efficiency, and reduce customer costs.
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