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GridNEXT was held Virtually this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. GridNEXT featured the following panels, discussions and interactive sessions highlighting clean technology advances and advancements in renewable energy.

Discussions and Interactive Segments included:

• Industry Briefing: An executive summary of the renewable energy industry from Peter Kelly-Detwiler

• Interactive Video Tour: Voltabox of Texas, a provider for e-mobility in industrial applications

Sessions for this year’s GridNEXT will included:

• Austin Energy REACH Plan: Sustainability, Affordability, and Reliability

• Current ERCOT Situation: West Texas Deliverability and Constraints

• Reaching our Renewable Energy Integration Goals: Grid Scale Storage in ERCOT

• Electrified Texas: The Future of Transport  

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This panel will discuss the specific issues related to West Texas. It will highlight issues related to regional load growth as well as challenges to continued development of utility-scale renewable assets. It will also focus on transmission constraints that may limit exports out of the region and affect future growth prospects for renewables.

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Austin Energy has committed to REACH: Reduce Emissions Affordably for Climate Health. This adopted plan brings a new market-based approach to accelerate reduction of carbon emissions by its legacy generators in the most economic manner available. REACH incorporates a cost of carbon in the generation dispatch price, allowing Austin Energy to reduce generation output during low-margin periods but keep the resources available for high-margin periods. Austin Energy will continue to adhere to affordability metrics through active portfolio management. The REACH plan is expected to reduce the utility’s carbon emissions by 30% through REACH and fossil fuel retirements. Thereafter, the REACH plan is expected to reduce carbon emissions by 8% each year, while maintaining the flexibility to protect our customers’ rates in periods of high prices in the wholesale market, until achieving zero carbon emissions by 2035.

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Energy storage is rapidly being deployed across the Texas power grid, with nearly 12,000 MW in the ERCOT interconnection queue as of June. This panel will explore the promise of energy storage, emerging business models, and the steps RECOT is taking to ensure successful integration of this new technology into the electric energy landscape.

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This electrifying panel will focus on the steps taken and work left to do to prepare ERCOT and the Texas grid to support the impending electrification of the transport sector in Texas. 

Topics for discussion will include:

• Market rules and structure

• Non-cash rebates and incentive structures to spur infrastructure investment

• Related business models that will benefit from the corresponding economic development

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