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September 8, 2026
IMM Favors End Of ERCOT ERS Program In Light Of LLDMS
In comments at the Texas PUC, Base Power Company has urged the PUC to avoid overly restrictive rules for the new statutorily required Large Load Demand Management Service (LLDMS), in order to allow innovative solutions such as the use of aggregated distributed energy resources (ADERs) to meet a…
April 13, 2026
GVEC and Base Power announced a significant expansion of their residential battery program to GVEC's entire service territory.
March 3, 2026
ERCOT is increasing the limits to participation under the Aggregate Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) Pilot.
December 4, 2025
In a recommended proposal for adoption, Texas PUC Staff recommended that certain load and distribution resources should be designated as eligible resources to meet the firming requirements for generation
November 14, 2025
ERCOT said in a market notice that it has updated the introductory section of the Aggregated Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) pilot webpage.
November 1, 2025
Base Texas QSE LLC has filed with the Texas PUC a registration for an Aggregated Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) under the ADER pilot, according to a caption of a confidential filing made with the PUC today
November 1, 2025
The Independent Market Monitor for ERCOT has submitted comments opposing Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) 1296 which would create an ERCOT-funded program providing incentive payments to retail electric providers (via REPs' QSEs) for residential demand response (RDR program)
October 24, 2025
ERCOT is exercising its previously granted authority to increase the following limits in the Aggregated Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) pilot:
October 8, 2025
Base Power announced today that it has raised $1 billion in Series C financing, led by Addition.
September 2, 2025
In comments on a proposed Texas PUC rule concerning firming requirements for generation, Octopus Energy urged the PUC to allow demand response and DERs to serve as eligible resources to meet firming obligations
August 26, 2025
ERCOT, as sponsor, has submitted Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) 1296 to create an ERCOT-funded program providing incentive payments to retail electric providers (via REPs' QSEs) for residential demand response
June 30, 2025
Base Power and GVEC announced a partnership to deploy a utility-managed fleet of residential batteries, starting in communities built by Lennar.
June 20, 2025
ERCOT has filed at the Texas PUC recommended changes to the Aggregated Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) Pilot program, including a model under which a non-LSE may participate as an aggregator. ERCOT will also undertake an immediate expansion of the program caps
May 20, 2025
Strobe Power NY, LLC, a start-up power marketer, is offering customers the opportunity to join its "network" and offering to pay customers for electricity from their solar, batteries, and generators.
February 25, 2025
Would Require That DERs Are "Fairly Compensated" For Grid Resilience
HB 3346 has been introduced in the Texas House that would require the Texas PUC to make the aggregate distributed energy resource pilot project (Project 53911) a formal program
February 13, 2025
The Texas PUC has moved consideration of Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) to the ERCOT stakeholder process as a means of more quickly advancing ADERs, consistent with a previously reported Staff memo (story here)
February 6, 2025
Texas PUC Staff have recommended that consideration of Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) be moved to the ERCOT stakeholder process as a means of more quickly advancing ADERs
February 3, 2025
HB 2303 has been filed in the Texas legislature which would require the Texas PUC to develop an ancillary service allowing retail electric providers to aggregate back-up generation to provide dispatchable generation to ERCOT during a power grid "outage".
December 5, 2024
Texas retail electric providers would not be compelled to offer a residential responsive device program, nor would the PUC mandate specific compensation to customers under any such REP responsive device programs, under a…
August 14, 2024
A task force addressing the Aggregate Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) pilot in ERCOT should review whether a customer may select a virtual power plant (VPP) provider that is different from the customer's retail electric provider, Commissioner says
August 13, 2024
Citing, "barriers [which] exist for multifamily properties," seeking to participate in the Aggregate Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) pilot…
February 9, 2024
A REP has filed with the Texas PUC a registration form for…
January 30, 2024
A new entity has filed with the Texas PUC a registration form for…
December 14, 2023
ERCOT Recommends Allowing ADERs To Provide ECRS
ERCOT is recommending expanding the ancillary service product eligibility for the Aggregate Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) pilot to include ERCOT Contingency Reserve Service (ECRS)
November 13, 2023
Tesla said in a filing at the Texas PUC that…
