Energy Capital Podcast

The Texas power grid is being rebuilt in real time. Energy Capital covers the policy fights, market mechanics, and technical decisions shaping what comes next. Hosted by Josh Rhodes (UT Austin) and Matt Boms (TAEBA), with the policymakers, regulators, and researchers at the center of it. Produced by ClarityForge Studios.Topics include ERCOT market operations, grid reliability, renewable integration, distributed energy resources, interconnection and transmission planning, regulatory economics, energy storage, demand response, and the Texas electricity market. New episodes weekly. on Texas energy and power grid issues, featuring interviews with energy professionals, academics, policymakers, and advocates. Produced by ClarityForge Studios. www.texasenergyandpower.com

Energy Capital Podcast is a news podcast hosted by Josh Rhodes & Matt Boms, with 113 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Josh Rhodes & Matt Boms hosts Energy Capital Podcast, a news show with 113 episodes published.

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  How will data centers pay for power?

  Jun 3, 202644 minS0

  <p>Right now, connecting a data center to the grid works like Texas hog season: no defined season, no bag limits, first-come-first-served, file as many interconnection requests as you want. Travis Kavulla’s recent essay in American Affairs argues the power industry needs something closer to deer season, with defined rounds, allocation rules, and prices that reflect what grid access actually costs.</p><p>The mechanism he favors is an open season, borrowed from interstate gas pipeline regulation. Rather than processing interconnection requests on a rolling basis, a grid operator would design an engineering plan reflecting realistic demand and tender it...

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  How Texas decides which data centers to connect

  May 27, 202650 minS0

  <p>ERCOT now has roughly 445 gigawatts of large loads asking to connect to the Texas grid, a figure so large that Joshua Rhodes says it might as well be infinite, because the system cannot physically build for all of it.</p><p>To sort real projects from speculative ones, ERCOT is launching a new screening process called batch zero, and stakeholders voted to advance it at last week’s Technical Advisory Committee meeting. On this episode, Rhodes walks through the mechanics with Tiffany Wu, an energy markets and regulatory consultant at McAdams Energy Group and a former adviser to Public Ut...

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  How Texas plans to serve ‘infinite demand’

  May 20, 202643 minS0

  <p>Texas has spent decades building transmission to serve load growth. The pattern worked when growth rose steadily with new homes, oil and gas operations, and the gradual expansion of the state’s industrial base. It is being tested by a different kind of customer: data centers requesting interconnection at a scale that exceeds what the grid can physically deliver.</p><p>Eric Goff, founder of Goff Policy and a long-time participant in the ERCOT stakeholder process, walks through how the system is adapting. The current large load queue sits above 400 gigawatts, a number Goff describes as effectively infinite because th...

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  Austin Energy Enters the Next Phase of Decarbonization

  May 13, 202641 minS0

  <p>Austin Energy’s power generation hit the 65 percent carbon-free level in 2024, and the municipal utility is targeting 100 percent carbon-free load by 2035, one of the most aggressive clean energy targets of any utility in Texas.</p><p>Austin Energy is one of the largest municipally owned utilities in the country and one of the few vertically integrated utilities operating inside ERCOT’s deregulated market. As the utility plans for load growth and rising ERCOT market exposure, it is also preparing the community to weigh the trade-offs that entails.</p><p>In this episode, Joshua Rhodes speaks with Stuart Reilly, general mana...

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  Process is Killing Texas Data Center Projects

  May 6, 202642 minS0

  <p>As the data center buildout in Texas accelerates, the public conversation has fixated on generation, interconnection queues, and gigawatts. But the firms actually structuring these deals see a different problem entirely: process.</p><p>In this episode, Joshua Rhodes speaks with Maura Yates, chief executive of Mothership Energy. Mothership is one of the most active retail electricity providers in ERCOT’s large-load market, managing more than three gigawatts of large load and writing more than 39 distinct data center contract templates to handle the variation across deals.</p><p>Yates says the technology to power data centers exists. The bottleneck fo...

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