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What comes after the data center backlash?
- ▶ 23:37 Shayle Kann You see this with what Governor Rabbit's doing in Texas, Governor Shapiro in Pennsylvania, other places as well.
- ▶ 30:25 Shayle Kann And yet, I watched a video yesterday of some Texas community, uh, hearing, some town hearing, um, where somebody was, was trying to fight against the data center that was coming, and they were mostly focused on the gas.
The electrician shortage slowing the AI boom
- ▶ 32:53 unnamed speaker So we try to collaborate in the markets and say, hey, how can I be a resource for the grid in your most strained times, whether it's snowmageddon in Texas, or whether it's summer July in Phoenix, uh, we want to be able to say to the, to…
The commercial battery comeback
- ▶ 18:44 Shayle Kann Which in Texas they can, and so if you're building a battery who, you know, intends to earn a significant portion of its revenue off of that ARB, um, it's been declining, or at least flat for a while, again, not just because we've added… 2 times in the scene
The multi-billion dollar promise of vehicle-to-grid integration
- ▶ 28:28 Shayle Kann Like, is Tesla selling Cybertrucks in Texas and saying, if you sign up for this program, we'll aggregate you 3 times in the scene
Inside the AI power wars
- ▶ 37:45 Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros Yeah, I, I think the action is going to concentrate in Texas. 2 times in the scene
How China is reshaping the global auto market
- ▶ 29:25 Michael Dunne That's happening in places here, also out near El Paso, Texas.
Surprising trends in global electricity generation
- ▶ 38:51 Shayle Kann Like in the U S you know, your, your, um, point about this kind of mini boom bust cycle that we might see, I think ERCOT, like text, the Texas market in the U S is super interesting, right?
Cracking the code on autonomous trucking
- ▶ 34:47 Eyal Cohen Um, I think what you'll see is some specific segments, mostly in Texas, where you'll, where you'll see occasional autonomous trucks and some scale applied there.
- ▶ 42:01 Eyal Cohen Um, you know, a lot of the testing for Thomas trucks has happened in Texas because the regulatory landscape there has been favorable to Thomas trucks.
The rise of flexible data centers
- ▶ 12:19 Varun Sivaram So if you're in ERCOT in Texas, you can pay more money for power right now, or you can ramp down and pay less money because power prices are high.
Battery booms and the rise of flexibility [partner content]
- ▶ 5:54 Stephen Lacey So you have a unique window into how battery markets play out around the world, from the UK to Texas to Japan. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:41 Sean McAvoy In terms of battery projects, almost equal to what we have existing in ERCOT, Texas, we're now seeing like the same in PJM.
- ▶ 16:54 Sean McAvoy So they don't have to curtail Senate bill six in Texas is kind of like an example of that, where if you're kind of 70 megawatts and over, you need to have the ability to, uh, curtail and other states are adopting like similar measures as…
- ▶ 18:38 Sean McAvoy Uh, by far are the crypto data centers, and there's lots of them in Texas, and they're the ones that have, like, flexibility in terms of, well, if the prices are super high, ah, I don't need to curtail. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:10 Sean McAvoy Like you see like some big sites around, um, geothermal, Texas is
The state and future of nuclear waste
- ▶ 15:05 Dr. Jen Shafer (Jen Schaefer) We've even seen this with respect to, um, lawsuits that we've seen in Texas and New Mexico, where maybe there is a disconnect there, but then there's strong federal support.
AI scaling pathways: on grid, on edge, off grid, off planet
- ▶ 26:50 Shayle Kann So many data centers going into Texas.
PJM and ERCOT navigate a capacity rollercoaster
- ▶ 0:28 Shayle Kann Coming up, the fate of the power markets in the Mid-Atlantic and Texas.
- ▶ 23:45 Shayle Kann Let's move on to Texas, um, where there's an interesting, I don't know, a sort of a different dynamic at play. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:42 Paul Siegel I know that there's a lot of other industrial and petrochemical load in Texas, for example, that that's well positioned to respond to high prices. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:12 Shayle Kann So what does it say about this merchant storage in Texas that 3 times in the scene
The rise of permissionless DERs
- ▶ 24:33 James McGinnis But the other thing I'd say is, like, in Texas, for example, demand charges are volumetric, and a lot of people add batteries to their solar systems in the traditional way to avoid consumption because they're getting billed for delivery,…
2026 trends: Gas turbines, Texas’ load queue and China electrifies
- ▶ 32:57 Shayle Kann So let's, let's go to Texas. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:44 Shayle Kann So we're staying in Texas. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:03 Shayle Kann or I don't believe this data, but the data is from the IEA, and it's a projection of how much of the electricity demand growth through twenty-thirty is going to come from various different sectors, and we, we just talked about, in the case…
Who benefits from the AI power bottleneck?
- ▶ 22:24 Shanu Matthew Um, some of these are also in regions, right, where they're impacted by regulatory, uh, impacts such as like Texas with SB six or PJM just actually went through and they couldn't get to a resolution on 2 times in the scene
Looking for a turnaround in transmission
- ▶ 21:55 Rob Gramlich In the Mid-Atlantic, and ERCOT in Texas also have a seven-sixty-five KV plan, so that's four regions who are, for the first time in many decades, doing the highest AC voltage transmission lines that we have.
New Mexico proves America can still build [partner content]
Driving down the cost of green hydrogen
- ▶ 10:38 Rafi Garabedian If you look in West Texas, um, and you were to sign a, uh, solar and wind kind of affirmed green power purchase agreement in, in Texas and Urquhart territory three years ago, you might've paid
How Base Power plans to use its fresh $1B
- ▶ 27:36 Shayle Kann So the other thing that is notoriously a challenge for anyone who's a rep in Texas in particular is churn, right?
- ▶ 34:38 Zach Dell And we think we have proven in Texas, and we'll hopefully prove across the country soon, that our assets are just as capable, and we can talk about what that means, as a natural gas beaker plant, or coal plant, or some kind of traditional… 3 times in the scene
Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth
- ▶ 17:40 Heather O'Neill And in a state, Texas, um, we were able to pass energy waste reduction legislation earlier this year, and that requires state agencies to really work together to get the most out of demand flexibility and demand response programs.
Ag residue and carbon removal
- ▶ 10:01 Peter Reinhardt And there's some companies that, that do an incredible job of this, like Pacific Ag, um, has a large operation in the, in the Texas, in the, in the panhandle, uh, kind of region.
When to colocate data centers with generation
- ▶ 3:53 Shayle Kann Especially in Texas.
- ▶ 15:02 Brian Janous Uh, and if you look at it in a place like Texas, for instance, where the, the average price for electricity on any given day is actually pretty low. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:04 Shayle Kann Well, okay, so just talking about nuclear for a second, because there have been, Fermi is a good example, that's the company that was founded by Rick Perry, former Secretary of State, or sorry, Secretary of Energy and, and governor of…
PJM and the capacity crunch
- ▶ 5:48 Shayle Kann Right, and we should say that some version of the capacity market exists basically everywhere other than Texas, right, in the U.S.? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:36 Steve Piper Um, but, uh, New York ISO, New England ISO, um, California, Texas, all the major ISOs, Midwest, Midwest ISO, um, 2 times in the scene
Tumult in residential solar
- ▶ 34:36 Julian Dumoulin-Smith And I'm sure you've seen some of these different, um, antidotes around Texas and, and how this is being sold, right?
The gas turbine crunch
- ▶ 5:53 Tony Brough I mean, they clearly were sending artificial signals to the marketplace that were driving up, um, uh, the cost of electricity significantly in several regions of the country, California, Texas, and other areas.
Terrawatt Infrastructure’s billion-dollar strategy
- ▶ 10:33 Lara Pierpoint It marks the beginning of what Terawatt envisions as a network of charging stations all along the I-Ten corridor, all the way from California to Texas. 2 times in the scene
Frontier Forum: Unlocking next-generation VPPs
- ▶ 17:16 Stephen Lacey So you've got a plan to build out a gigawatt of capacity in Texas. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:37 Ben Brown So, you know, not just in Texas, not just across the programs that we've already enrolled folks in, but there's, there's capacity sitting across on the sidelines across the country.
Catalyst Live at SF Climate Week
- ▶ 31:11 Nick Chaset I'll just say, though, in Texas, uh, one gigawatt of peak load is attributable to pool pumps. 2 times in the scene
The geopolitics of rare earth elements
- ▶ 26:56 Ahmad Ghahreman MP Materials in Texas and a few other companies are building capacity. 2 times in the scene
What’s next for the battery storage boom? [partner content]
- ▶ 9:15 Stephen Lacey So California, Arizona, Texas, those are really hot markets.
Serving data center load with carbon capture
- ▶ 17:01 Julio Friedmann In contrast, of course, Texas, Louisiana, central Illinois, the Rockies, these are great places to store CO two, even humbly California.
How climate disasters are shaping insurance markets
- ▶ 2:19 Shayle Kann So, as most of you know, I live in California, and if you live in California, as I'm sure is true if you live in Florida or parts of the Southeast or maybe Texas or really a lot of places, then you know that homeowner's insurance seems to…
More 2025 trends: DeepSeek, plug-in hybrids, and curtailment
- ▶ 6:48 Nat Bullard And like, and you can, you know, you can see it in, you can see it in the world's great uncovered, uh, or the U.S.'s great uncovered power market, which is Uricot in Texas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:15 Nat Bullard This is data from, from Modo, uh, which has a high degree of visibility again into the Texas market.
Are utilities ready to fully harness demand flexibility? [partner content]
- ▶ 19:14 Stephen Lacey Let's turn to another important event, and that was, ah, Winter Storm Uri in Texas. 4 times in the scene
2025 trends: aerosols, oil demand, and carbon removal
- ▶ 23:37 Nat Bullard They're not just people in Texas and California, you know, that shape kind of our understanding of, of what investing might be.
Lithium’s wild ride
- ▶ 34:19 Ernest Scheyder Texas, for instance, has no rules right now governing lithium extraction, which I think people just assume because Texas has a huge, uh, history in oil and gas extraction that it would also have these lithium rules, but they haven't… 3 times in the scene
Explaining the 'Watt-Bit Spread'
- ▶ 41:09 Shayle Kann I appreciate you helping me make sense of it, and I'm sure we're going to do it again soon because we're going to hear about the five gigawatt data center that's getting developed in Abilene, Texas, or whatever.
The complex path to market for low-carbon cement
- ▶ 31:00 Shayle Kann Texas wind wrecks, right? 2 times in the scene
The state of connected DERs [partner content]
- ▶ 6:54 Charlotte Johnson In other countries, what we've seen, so if you take Australia, for example, where one in three homes have rooftop solar, I think that's about 20 gigawatts of solar, so a very similar solar install capacity to somewhere like Texas, the…
- ▶ 8:10 Stephen Lacey Let's turn to a very dynamic market here in the US, and that is Texas. 10 times in the scene
The rise of climate adaptation tech
- ▶ 24:18 Shayle Kann So if you're in Texas, um, and, you know, the solution you're considering adopting is a microgrid or backup power or something like that, like, clearly that's immediate for you.
Hunting for geologic hydrogen
- ▶ 27:39 Shayle Kann Like, you know, you have the petrochemical corridor in Texas or whatever. 2 times in the scene
Frontier Forum: Is America’s green bank ready?
- ▶ 0:12 Stephen Lacey Today he leads Texas's first Green Bank, a non-profit that finances clean energy for Texans with limited access to the banking system. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:45 Amanda Lee I mean, Billy's sitting here from Texas, right?
Under the hood of data center power demand
- ▶ 19:41 Brian Janous Now, the recent storms in Texas, notwithstanding, you probably saw the pictures of, you know, very high voltage transmission lines that were completely decimated, uh, in those storms.
- ▶ 25:46 Brian Janous You know, if it's a really hot day in Texas, for instance.
Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan
- ▶ 21:36 Drew Baglino Um, and, and actually, if you look at what Tesla's doing now with, uh, with Tesla Electric in Texas, they're, they're actually almost providing the choice.
- ▶ 51:56 Drew Baglino So we built the lithium refinery in a part of Texas where it's a permit by, by rule.
- ▶ 55:36 Drew Baglino Um, and then one other thing I would say is, you know, our lithium refinery in Texas, we actually are doing a different process specifically to kind of help with some of the permitting aspects like you've just said.
Could VPPs save rooftop solar?
- ▶ 14:25 Jigar Shah I mean, because you watch on Twitter and there's people in Texas who, you
The news quiz episode!
- ▶ 37:34 Stephen Lacey In this job, you could theoretically work from anywhere in the world, but few locations you're more likely to work are Texas, Iceland, and Zurich. 2 times in the scene
Building a supply chain for rare earth elements
- ▶ 23:25 Ahmad Ghahreman For instance, Department of Defense, Defense awarded, uh, uh, Linus in Texas with over two hundred million dollars to, to build capacity on refining of, uh, mixtures, oxides, or
- ▶ 29:23 Ahmad Ghahreman On, on refining side, for instance, Linus, that already is refining in Malaysia, is building a plant in Texas.
How an obscure, 100-year old law is disrupting U.S. energy
- ▶ 16:15 Colin Grabow So, for example, uh, East Coast refineries, say, in the Mid-Atlantic, uh, they import more oil from places like, uh, Libya or the Middle East or Nigeria than they do from Texas, from the Gulf Coast.
2023 climate tech venture investment trends
- ▶ 39:45 Shayle Kann Um, be interesting to speculate a little bit on this one, like one, one region that has not seen nearly as much investment historically, but I would place a bet is going to show up on your rankings at least higher the next couple of years… 2 times in the scene
What do you do with a 100-hour battery?
- ▶ 19:35 Mateo Jaramillo It could be a heat dome in the Pacific Northwest, or a polar vortex in the upper Midwest, or a nor'easter, you know, in the Northeast, or an unlikely winter storm Uri in Texas.
Update: What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains
EV charging on both sides of the pond
- ▶ 12:15 Nick Woolley Whether you are in Texas or Spain or the UK or California, you basically, that we see a massive spike
- ▶ 15:12 Nick Woolley So, for example, Texas resembles a lot more like, ah, the UK market where retail is separate.
Mailbag episode! Interest rates, carbon dioxide removal, load growth, and more
- ▶ 34:42 Shayle Kann Uh, there, there's a bunch of data around, so like Texas, another example of this, right?
The market for microgrids
- ▶ 16:42 Tim Hade Texas, during Yuri, um, almost lost power for probably multiple weeks, um, and they were, I think, 30 minutes away from that happening.
- ▶ 43:38 Shayle Kann In the wake of events like Sandy or like hurricanes in Texas, you know, how much, how much does the immediacy of these reliability events really drive demand?
Fixing interconnection
- ▶ 3:00 Tyler Norris So Texas has around 40 gigawatts of installed wind.
- ▶ 6:25 Shayle Kann And he wrote a great paper about what sounds like a pretty simple idea, which is basically bring the process that has worked in ERCOT, the Texas electricity market, to the rest of the country.
- ▶ 17:10 Shayle Kann So let's talk about what else could be done, and in particular, we're going to talk about Texas. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:44 Shayle Kann Um, and in some ways that, that seems very much like a, it's a very Texas-like thing, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:26 Shayle Kann So I'm a, I'm a perspective generator, and I submit an interconnection request outside of Texas. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:02 Shayle Kann So I think in some ways it is kind of intuitive given how you describe the process, but maybe we can spend a minute more on, on exactly why the process that the interconnection process outside of Texas with the system impact studies and so…
- ▶ 38:38 Shayle Kann Okay, so if you could, if you're in charge of PJM or MISO or CAISO or some, some market outside of Texas, and you could wave a somewhat realistic magic wand, in other words, you can reform the interconnection process, but you're not going…
The food-energy nexus
- ▶ 28:55 Dr. Michael Webber We're having massive agricultural losses in Texas right now from the heat wave and drought. 3 times in the scene
Can the V2X dream become reality?
- ▶ 8:02 Shayle Kann In Texas, who had, I think it was a Ford F- one-fifty, uh, Lightning that is capable of doing V to H, and, um, they had an outage in Texas, and he used the, used the vehicle to power his lab, uh, he happens to do vasectomies, so he called… 2 times in the scene
The great Bitcoin energy debate
- ▶ 3:07 Shayle Kann Well, look at all the mines in Texas that are participating in demand response events.
- ▶ 4:55 Ben Hertz-Shargel Um, it's much more scattered across the Midwest and the Mountain West, uh, but then there's a lot in Texas.
- ▶ 6:20 Shayle Kann I know there's a big cluster in Texas and ERCOT, which we'll, we'll probably talk more about.
- ▶ 11:49 Ben Hertz-Shargel And he also dug into things like demand response and some, how miners make money, how they have acted in certain, um, you know, kind of grid sensitive times like the winter storm Ori in Texas.
- ▶ 17:02 Ben Hertz-Shargel Um, whereas retail customers pay a much larger margin in Texas, and that margin, in fact, does grow with the price of electricity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:03 Shayle Kann So we're in Texas. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:17 Ben Hertz-Shargel Example, there, uh, there's a bit, there's a mine in Texas, uh, US Bitcoin, which is behind the meter, uh, now at, uh, the King Mountain wind facility, which is a really large facility, and they've basically signed to, to, uh, take, I…
- ▶ 44:38 Ben Hertz-Shargel You know, the number that, that I gave the, uh, 1.8 billion per year in Texas, it's conservative because, you know, that's,
Understanding the transmission bottleneck
- ▶ 29:32 Shayle Kann And ERCOT, so this is right, this was a Texas, because Texas has its own grid and gets to do things its own way, Texas created the CREZ, I don't know what to call it, program, uh, which resulted in a bunch of transmission build-out. 5 times in the scene
What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains
2023 trends: biomass, ESG, batteries and more
- ▶ 18:25 Nat Bullard And I think that in general, China's assets, largely because of geography, unless they're far in the West or the high altitude desert, tend to have lower capacity factors than you would have in, say, Texas, you know, or New Mexico in the…
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