Texas

Fast Company reports that Texas has become a national leader in the clean energy space, now tied with California as one of the largest employers of advanced energy jobs in the country. Matthew Boms of Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance (United’s state affiliate) praised Texas’ clean energy job growth, highlighting how the state’s free-market framework has supported the growth of renewables over two decades.

In 2023, advanced energy employment nationwide increased by 4%, more than double the growth rate of the overall U.S. labor market. Advanced energy jobs surged from 2022 to 2023, with 4.1 million U.S. workers now working in the sector. Some of these gains were driven by the early impact of tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

San Antonio Express-News reports on the growing Texas battery energy storage boom, but some Hill County residents are worried that new battery storage sites will be noisy, increase the risk of fire, and cause environmental damage. The article quotes Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance’s (United’s state affiliate) Matthew Boms, who spoke to the importance of battery storage sites in the state.

Amid rising energy demands, the New York Times reports that America’s biggest oil-producing state, Texas, has turned to solar power and battery storage to see it through extreme weather over the years. The article quotes Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance’s (United’s state affiliate) Matthew Boms who speaks to Texas’ renewable energy potential.

Amidst ongoing power outages and calls for investigations in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, TAEBA is advocating for Texas leaders to reevaluate the state’s approach to grid resilience.

Matt Boms of Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance (TAEBA), Advanced Energy United’s Texas entity, is interviewed live on Scripps News’ The National Report on July 12 about the impacts Hurricane Beryl had on the Texas power grid. Boms makes the case that Texas utilities should be relying less on centralized power plants and more on distributed resources, like rooftop solar and other aggregated resources, to improve resiliency in the face of extreme weather like hurricanes.

The Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance’s Micalah Spenrath outlines the ADER Pilot Project, a testing ground for allowing consumers to contribute energy to the electricity market, thereby becoming prosumers that can both consume and produce electricity.

Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance (TAEBA) encourages the Public Utility Commission of Texas to prioritize reforms to Texas’ energy efficiency programs and to continue to make progress on the Energy Efficiency Implementation Project.

America’s Electric Grid Reliability Fact Sheets outline the state of the grid across the country, covering New England, Texas, the West, and California.

Released by IdeaSmiths LLC and co-funded by Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance and Advanced Energy United, “ERCOT 2040: A Roadmap for Modernizing Texas’ Electricity Infrastructure” outlines the most cost-effective path for the Texas electric grid to meet the state’s energy needs by 2040.

Spectrum News 13 reports on a hefty federal grant that will be dispersed across nine states and three tribal nations to improve grid resiliency, quoting Matthew Boms’ hopes that this be a catalyst for more forward-thinking plans toward advanced clean energy technologies in Texas.