Texas Grid Overhaul Leaves Battery Operators With More Risk, Less Upside

Texas battery storage operators are pushing back after ERCOT changed how power is priced and dispatched, effectively asking batteries to behave more like power plants while reducing some of the market opportunities that made them profitable in the first place. For years, battery storage has been described as a game-changer for wind and solar and with a very good reason. The biggest problem of both is the fact their output depends on constantly changing weather. Batteries, however, can store whatever exces ...