APA Leadership ensuring that the voice of the advanced power generation
and energy storage industries is heard inside the region’s state capitols.
Advanced Power Alliance Vice President Judd Messer today provided testimony before the Texas House Committee on State Affairs. Chaired by Texas State Representative Todd Hunter, the committee has broad authority including jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to “the regulation and deregulation of electric utilities and the electric industry” in Texas. The committee met as part of their oversight and monitoring responsibilities and to consider issues that may arise during the 2025 Texas legislative session.
Highlighting rapidly increasing demand for power in the ERCOT market, Messer’s testimony highlighted the important contributions that renewable power generation and energy storage are delivering in providing abundant, affordable, and reliable power for Texas consumers. Energy storage remains a focus for APA as members of this organization are leading the investment in storage, especially battery energy storage systems (BESS), which are expected to increase two-fold by the end of 2024.
His testimony also brought attention to persistent and problematic congestion and lack of capacity on the ERCOT electric grid, an issue that must be addressed through new transmission construction along with grid enhancing technologies to increase capacity on existing lines. A growing state with increasing population and expanding industry should expect no less than a grid adequate to meet these needs.
Finally, Messer called for market policies that focus on a complementary generation resource mix that allows generation types to work together to meet the system’s goals of abundance and affordability.
A link to Messer’s testimony is here.