– The Texas A&M University System is making plans to create a peaker power network on system-owned lands to help stabilize the Texas energy grid in times of peak demand.Texas legislators and private developers approached the Texas A&M System and asked if they would offer up system lands for the project
The Texas A&M System offered up its properties in response to the creation of the Texas Energy Fund. Under that fund, which was passed in November 2023, grants and loans have been made available to help finance the construction and maintenance of electric facilities in the State of Texas. Meteorologist Mia Montgomery sits down with Chancellor John Sharp to talk about the early stages of the peaker power plant network.Speaking of individual campuses, Texas A&M-San Antonio may be a contender to house one of these peaker power plants in the future, due largely in part to the size of the land that the campus currently sits on, and also because of a natural gas line that already exists on that land.