The state grid operator this month will begin seeking the supply it needs to replace power produced by aging gas-fired units at CPS Energy’s Braunig Power Station — and failure to find more capacity could halt the city-owned utility’s plans to shutter them by March. The timeline approved this week by utility regulators comes after the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said this spring that CPS’s request would have a “material impact” on the grid and its reliability.
asks ERCOT to approve shutdown of Braunig power units as clean energy transition rolls on In an interview with the San Antonio Express-News in May, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas said there’s nothing unusual in the utility’s plan. “What CPS is going through is a very healthy cycle in the energy market lifecycle: Older, less efficient, higher-cost plants … they will cycle off and come out of the market as lower cost, more efficient, cleaner type of resources can come into the market,” he said.
Energy acquiring three gas-fired generating plants in $785 million deal with Talen Energy To offset the Braunig loss in the local market, CPS recently bought existing, more efficient gas-powered plants from Talen Energy. But because those plants, two in Corpus Christi and one in Laredo, were already part of ERCOT’s capacity before the purchase, Braunig’s closing would still result in a net loss on the statewide grid.
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