New technologies and business models are fundamentally changing the way we make, manage, and use energy. We call these technologies “advanced energy,” and they are leading toward a prosperous future.
Texas is a natural for advanced energy. Texas has abundant homegrown resources for making the energy we use secure, clean, reliable, and affordable. And Texas has the pro-business, pro-growth spirit to make the most of the advanced energy opportunity.
The Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance is made up of companies that are making it happen. As these companies grow, so does the Texas economy, creating jobs and contributing toward prosperity for all Texans.
Texas is growing fast, and with that growth comes rising energy demand. This new report from TAEBA, produced by Demand Side Analytics, finds that Texas could save billions by better integrating distributed energy resources (DERs) – like rooftop solar, battery storage, electric vehicles, and smart appliances – into Oncor’s grid planning and ERCOT’s market operations.
The study shows that including customer-owned technologies in these processes would save the average Oncor customer $2,102 over ten years or about $279 per year. Those savings come from avoiding unnecessary grid expansion and reducing wholesale electricity costs – benefits currently being left on the table because of outdated planning and interconnection practices. Better use of local, customer-owned energy resources could help Oncor customers avoid nearly $3 billion in unnecessary grid upgrades over the next decade. The report places the total value of better DER integration at $8.5 billion over ten years, with savings that would strengthen reliability, enhance competition, and help meet Texas’s growing power needs.
Oncor provides electricity to more than 4 million customers across 98 counties, including Dallas, Tarrant, and Ector, and is one of five investor-owned utilities operating within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages about 90 percent of the state’s electric load. Modernizing ERCOT’s planning and market rules to enable distributed energy participation would unlock these savings while improving transparency, competition, and grid resilience across Texas.
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