This year's first major heat wave is here. How will the ERCOT power grid hold up?
By Claire Hao, Staff writer
May 13, 2025
The Texas power grid is expected to sail through the first major heat wave of the year without issue, largely thanks to its diverse and growing mix of power plants and renewable energy.
That’s an observation energy professionals closely following the Texas Legislature made with some irony, as state lawmakers have proposed numerous bills to constrain the very same renewable energy that's expected to help keep the power grid afloat this week.
"If there is not a crisis (this week), it's in part because of these resources that right now get considered to be not important or not having very much value,” said Aaron Zubaty, CEO of Eolian, a California-based company with battery storage projects in Texas.