ERCOT says Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act yields industry disclosures but spot checks remain paper‑centric
ERCOT testified that the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act produced attestations from market participants and identified imported equipment (mostly inverters and batteries) from designated countries, but ERCOT said attestations and weekly spot checks remain largely paper‑driven and recommended more guardrails on vendor warranty access.
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Chad Seeley, general counsel and chief compliance officer for ERCOT, briefed the committee on the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act (LISPA) implementation. Seeley explained ERCOT's two attestation streams — corporate affiliate relationships and grid equipment/software/services — and said the agency completed a five‑year lookback. He reported that about 114 market participants disclosed some corporate relationship tied to a designated country, and that nearly all grid equipment disclosures identified equipment sourced from China (batteries, solar inverters, transformers and power conversion systems) but, per attestations, none of those affiliates had continuous remote access or operational control of the grid.
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