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Texas Generation · Free Markets · Reliability
Keep the Texas Market
Competitive.
Powering Texans advocates for free-market energy policies that promote investment, encourage competition, and deliver a stronger grid for Texans, their businesses, and their families.
Reliable power, competitive markets, and smart investment are essential to Texas' continued growth.
Member Companies
CalpineConstellationNRGVistra
Who We Are
Advocacy for a competitive Texas energy market.
Powering Texans advocates for free-market policies and principles within the Texas energy landscape, while promoting the general welfare of all Texans.
By keeping the energy market free from excessive government control, Powering Texans works to promote investment, encourage competition, and deliver a stronger grid for Texans, their businesses, and their families.
About Powering TexansAt a Glance
Texas impact, in numbers.
Aggregate data from Powering Texans member companies.
38,000+ MW
Texas generation capacity
40+
Facilities across Texas
8,380
Texas employees
$505M+
State & local tax revenue
$172M+
Charitable giving
16,000+
Volunteer hours
Market Explainer
How competition powers Texas.
Clear market signals help attract private investment, support new generation, and deliver a stronger grid for Texans, their businesses, and their families.
Step 01
Competitive Market Signals
In ERCOT's competitive market, prices reflect real-time supply and demand. Those signals tell investors where new generation is needed and reward resources that show up when the grid is tight.
Transparent price signals and competition help guide where capital flows.
In ERCOT's competitive market, prices reflect real-time supply and demand. Those signals tell investors where new generation is needed and reward resources that show up when the grid is tight.
What Helps
Predictable rules, investment certainty, and competition.
What Can Slow Progress
Policy uncertainty, distorted market signals, and excessive government intervention.
Why Texas Leads
The #1 state for business runs on a free-market grid.
Texas is the nation's top state for business — and competitive power generation is a foundation of that advantage. Free-market policy keeps capital flowing, generation building, and Texans competitive.
Our PrioritiesPriorities
Priorities for a stronger Texas grid.
The policy framework Powering Texans champions: free markets, competition, investment, dispatchable generation, affordability, and a grid built to deliver for every Texan.
Free-Market Energy Policy
Keep Texas energy free from excessive government control so competition can deliver value to Texans.
Reliable Power Generation
Sustained investment in dispatchable resources keeps the lights on in every condition.
Affordability for Texans
Competitive markets discipline prices for families, businesses, and communities.
Investment Signals
Stable rules and clear price signals attract the capital Texas needs to build new generation.
Dispatchable Generation
On-demand resources are the backbone of a grid that has to deliver every hour, in every weather.
Data Centers & Large Load
Long-term load growth tied to AI and manufacturing must be paired with new generation.
Grid Preparedness
Operational readiness ahead of summer peaks, winter storms, and hurricanes.
National Security & Energy Dominance
American energy is American strength. Texas leads on both.
Grid Reliability Hub
Reliability starts with preparation and investment.
Member companies stage crews, fuel, and equipment ahead of every storm — and stay coordinated with ERCOT and the PUC throughout the event.
Reliability
Hurricane Preparedness
Coordinated response and facility readiness ahead of Gulf Coast events.
Reliability
Dispatchable Generation
Why on-demand resources are essential to ERCOT reliability.
Reliability
Facility Readiness
How generators stage crews, fuel, and equipment before a weather event.
Reliability
ERCOT / PUC Coordination
Member companies work hand-in-hand with state operators.
Reliability
Grid Performance: Winter Storm Enzo
How Texas generators performed when it counted most.
Data Centers & Texas Growth
Powering Texas growth in the age of AI.
Data centers are long-term facilities — distinct from short-cycle crypto loads — that often seek multi-year power purchase agreements. Properly structured, they support Texas economic growth while keeping the grid reliable.
- Economic Growth
- Long-Term Power Agreements
- Grid Reliability
- Large-Load Flexibility
- National Security
- Texas Competitive Advantage
Market Facts
Market facts, not alarmist headlines.
Powering Texans explains complex grid and market issues so policymakers and the public can better understand how reliability tools, market rules, and investment signals shape Texas' electric future.
One-Pager · ECRS
Truth About ECRS
Cutting through confusion around the cost of ERCOT Contingency Reserve Service.
View One-PagerResource Library
Featured one-pagers.
One-pagers and briefings for policymakers, media, and Texans tracking the state's electric future.
Who We Are
Powering Texans At A Glance
Members, facilities, jobs, and Texas impact.
View One-PagerData Centers
Data Centers & Grid Reliability in Texas
Long-term load growth, PPAs, and what policymakers should know.
View One-PagerECRS
Truth About ECRS
Market facts behind alarmist headlines about Ercot Contingency Reserve Service.
View One-PagerReliability
Texas Grid Performance During Winter Storm Enzo
How member-company generation performed during the storm.
View One-PagerPress & Updates
News, Testimony & Updates.
Testimony
ICYMI: Powering Texans CEO Walt Baum Testifies Before Legislative Oversight Committee on Grid Reliability
Walt Baum outlines investment signals, market design, and dispatchable capacity needs.
Statement
Powering Texans Praises PUC for Voting to Adopt Reliability Standard
What the new standard means for generators, customers, and Texas resource adequacy.
Announcement
Powering Texans' Member Companies Selected to Advance Projects to Strengthen Power Generation Capacity
Selected projects move into the next phase of a state-led process to add firm power.
Watch
Grid reliability and market testimony.
Powering Texans CEO Walt Baum on dispatchable generation, investment stability, and the reforms Texas needs to keep the grid reliable.
Take Action
Help keep the Texas market competitive.
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