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April 30, 2025

ERCOT

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas manages the flow of electric power to about 90 percent of the state’s electric load. The nonprofit independent system operator is governed by a board of directors and is subject to oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature.
ERCOT
ERCOT’s TAC Endorses Congestion Management Plan
ERCOT stakeholders endorsed a protocol change that creates a process to compensate market participants when a constrained management plan or switching instruction trips a generator that otherwise would have stayed online.
Xcel Energy
Xcel ‘Optimistic’ It Will Handle Tariffs, Trade War
Xcel CEO Bob Frenzel tried to reassure the investment community that the company is better prepared for a trade war and President Trump's tariffs during a first-quarter earnings call.
Admin Monitor
Texas PUC Approves 765-kV Transmission Option for Permian Basin
The Texas Public Utility Commission approved a plan that allows ERCOT to authorize the region’s first extra-high-voltage transmission lines and meet the petroleum-rich Permian Basin’s rapidly growing power needs. 
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Load Growth Dominates Discussions at GCPA’s Spring Conference
Rapid demand growth within ERCOT was a major point of discussion at the Gulf Coast Power Association's recent Spring Conference.
Texas RE
Texas RE Endorses 6.4% Budget Increase for 2026
The Texas Reliability Entity’s Member Representatives Committee has unanimously approved the entity’s 2026 budget and business plan that is within 1% of previous projections, but at 6.4% increase over 2025.
ERCOT
PUC Staff Urges Approval of 765-kV Lines to West Texas
The Texas Public Utility Commission’s staff has recommended the commission approve the construction of three 765-kV transmission lines, rather than 345-kV, into the petroleum-rich Permian Basin to improve the region’s reliability.
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GCPA Hears Different Tales on Texas Load Growth from 2 CEOs
Two power industry CEOs at the Gulf Coast Power Association’s spring conference offered two different takes on ERCOT load growth over the rest of the decade — and how the sector should deal with a potential doubling of peak demand by 2031.
Lone Star Industrial Park
2 More Projects Fall out of TEF Loan Program
The troubled Texas Energy Fund has lost two more projects from its original list of applicants, raising questions about its ability to quickly add 10 GW of gas-fired dispatchable resources to the ERCOT grid.
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GCPA Conference Examines the Biggest Change to ERCOT Market in 15 Years
ERCOT is poised to start testing real time co-optimization of energy and ancillary services in a few weeks and bring the change live this December, which will mark the biggest paradigm shift in Texas' wholesale markets in 15 years.
ERCOT
ERCOT Board of Directors Briefs: April 7-8, 2025
ERCOT’s plans to continue running a 55-year-old San Antonio gas plant scheduled for retirement are being endangered by "pretty significant findings" that increase costs and delay the schedule.

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