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February 21, 2025

Texas pilot program bolsters grid with ‘virtual power plants'

  • As energy demand soars, the program aims to show how residents could participate directly in the wholesale power market.
    • By KAYLA GUO
    The Texas Tribune

    On sunny days in the Hill Country, Tom Cook taps open an app on his phone and watches the power generated from the solar panels on his roof flow to his home — and out to the state power grid.

    Cook has a battery storage system on the side of his home in Bandera to power things during outages. The rest of the time, his retail electric provider sends power from his battery back to the grid.


     
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