Principal Solar Institute Ron Seidel Director, Principal Solar Ron Seidel is principal of RBS Energy Consulting, working with private equity, investment banks, and government on electric energy issues primarily in the ERCOT market. Previously, he was president of Texas Independent Energy, senior vice president of Energy Supply at City Public Service of San Antonio, and an executive at TXU where he was senior vice president of Fossil Generation and Mining, president of TXU Energy Trading, and operations manager at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant. Delivering to the Energy Marketplace -Texas Harvests Wind and Solar
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Principal Solar Institute
Ron SeidelDirector, Principal Solar
Ron Seidel is principal of RBS Energy Consulting, working with private equity, investment banks, and government on electric energy issues primarily in the ERCOT market. Previously, he was president of Texas Independent Energy, senior vice president of Energy Supply at City Public Service of San Antonio, and an executive at TXU where he was senior vice president of Fossil Generation and Mining, president of TXU Energy Trading, and operations manager at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant.
Delivering to the Energy Marketplace -Texas Harvests Wind and Solar
ERCOT Facts & Figures200,000 Square Miles >43,000 miles of High Voltage Transmission>74,000 MW Peak Capacity~12,000 MW of wind capacity <200 MW utility scale solar capacity 69,783 MW Peak Load (August 10, 2015)– Increase of 3,356 MW over 2014 Peak Load (5.1%)
13.75% Target Reserve Margin
Source: ERCOT
Texas Ties to Mexico and the Eastern Interconnection
Source: RBS Energy Consulting
Wind13% Hydro,
biomass, other1%
Nuclear 7%
Coal23%
Natural Gas56%
Installed Capacity2011
Wind14%
Hydro, biomass, other
1%Nuclear
6%
Coal24%
Natural Gas55%
Installed Capacity2014
69,704 Megawatts 73,910 Megawatts
ERCOT Capacity2011 and 2014
Source: ERCOT
Wind8%
Hydro, biomass, other
1%Nuclear
12%
Coal39%
Natural Gas40%
Energy Produced2011
Wind11%
Hydro, biomass, other
1%Nuclear
12%
Coal36%
Natural Gas41%
Energy Produced2014
335,000 Gigawatt-hours 340,000 Gigawatt-hours
ERCOT Energy2011 and 2014
Source: ERCOT
Reliability Values
Gas/Coal/Nuclear
West Texas Wind
Coastal Wind Current Solar Future Solar0%
10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%100%
12%
56%
100%
70%
Reliability %
ERCOT Load Growth
ERCOT Average Load Growth 2016 – 2025 is 1.3% or about 1,000 MW per year
Equivalent to–One nuclear plant each year–Two coal plants each year–Two combined cycle gas plants each year