Challenges of Serving Burgeoning Load Growth in Texas

Faced with an unprecedented expansion of energy demand across Texas, the ERCOT market must generate, transmit and distribute 152 GW of reliable power by 2030, up from 89 GW of today. Rapidly building up system capacity to meet the needs of new data centers, electrification of Permian Basin oil production, and population growth is driving massive investment in an avalanche of new generation, storage, transmission and distribution infrastructure. Simultaneously, the many market and rule reforms, including the $5B Texas Energy Fund mandated in 2023 legislation, implementing real-time co-optimization, and a new dispatchable reliability reserve service are simultaneously changing the risk and reward profiles for all market participants while creating new opportunities for many. What will the ERCOT power market soon look like? Where will new opportunities, challenges and risks emerge? How should market participants position themselves to profit?

Fortunately, Infocast has the answers. Our ERCOT Market Summit 2025 will provide a truly remarkable discussion by Texas policy makers, regulators, utility executives, renewable and dispatchable generation developers, financiers and other experts on how the myriad changes will affect risks, rewards, and challenges in the future, and the strategies that leading players are using to capture new opportunities now.

Infocast's ERCOT Market Summit 2025 will provide an unparalleled deep dive into the impacts of new policies on reliability, power pricing, project development and bankability, and how to best meet the shifting needs of commercial, industrial, and retail customers.