State Affairs Committee hears ERCOT, PUC on sweeping changes to interconnection rules as data‑center requests surge
The Committee on State Affairs convened an interim hearing on data centers, where ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission outlined a new annual "batch" study to allocate transmission capacity amid a 400,000+ MW queue and industry leaders described billions in planned investment.
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The Committee on State Affairs held a full‑day interim hearing focused on how Texas will connect a wave of large data‑center projects to the grid. ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission described a new annual "batch" study intended to evaluate many projects at once and allocate available transmission capacity across 2027–2030 as the interconnection queue swelled.
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