The market for energy storage in Texas is in limbo, in part because key issues regarding utility ownership of energy storage have yet to be resolved.
The issue arose a year ago when the PUCT dismissed a request by AEP Texas, a unit of American Electric Power, to install two battery storage projects because the regulators said they lacked sufficient information.
Instead, the PUCT in February opened a docket (#48023) on the issue to “develop facts necessary to establish a regulatory framework” that would allow energy storage and other technologies to operate within the confines of Texas’ Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA).
