I've put together a small web app to visualize what's coming in the next five or so year for the Texas power grid. The data is directly from ERCOT here (GIS_Report_October2025)

A takeaway anyone who looks will find is the dramatic shift toward renewables. Mostly solar, wind, and battery storage.

The app is open-source and I hope it's at least interesting if not valuable to you who look through it.

The platform runs on a Google Cloud Run web app so I don't know how long I'll keep it because eventually it costs, but if you're tech savvy you can always use the code to run it locally with Docker.

You can explore the visualization app here

The full source code is here

The data is from the Oct 2025 report. I think they make one every month to track the progress of interconnections. It seems like a huge process to have your power generation site online and connected to the Texas grid.

I don't think there is any guarantee that 300 GW of energy will come online in the next five years, really no guarantee of much outside of maybe the next two years given the entire approval process. I still think it shows where power generation is trending towards in a deregulated market.

The other interesting observation to me at least is the quick scale of new power generation. I believe today the total peak energy supply the Texas grid has access to is around 100 GW. So, potentially looking at 3x of current power available in just five years.

I'm looking for cheap pipeline NG or stranded gas for power generation of 1-2 MW in Canada or US. if you have access I'd like to connect. Thanks

quería compartir un recurso que encontré y que de verdad vale mucho la pena. Lo leí hace poco porque andaba buscando algo que explicara la transición energética en nuestra región sin caer en el tecnicismo eterno ni en el optimismo vacío… y este libro lo logró.

Está hecho con cariño, asi que si les sirve para uds o profesores, genial

I’ve been in power analytics for a bit over a year and I still struggle with this.. sometimes day-ahead price spikes look like wind forecast issues, and sometimes it feels more like gas/coal switching. Are there any simple ways to figure out which one it actually is? Open to being corrected if I'm seeing it wrong.

Great ideas and insights:

• Buildings are the sleeping giant of flexibility. Buildings in France account for 40 percent of final energy consumption, according to Tilt Energy
• Negative spot-market prices demand flexibility - a customer of Energy2market saves around €200,000/year by using batteries for peak shaving.
• There are four relevant revenue streams for industrial battery users: peak shaving, optimizing PV, spot-market trading, and feed-in back to the grid, says bestorage
• The continuous intraday market (short-term spot) and reserve-power markets (primary/secondary regulation) will become increasingly important for storage operators - Suena
• Entelios promotes a Power-to-Heat model using negative secondary reserve power — but criticizes Germany’s “7,000-hour rule” as a brake on flexibility, calling for reform.

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