Stakeholder Soapbox: The Unseen Costs of Subsidized Solar

RTO Stakeholder | Source: RTO Insider | Posted 05/12/2025

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No grid exemplifies this trend more starkly than ERCOT, which supplies power to millions of people across the state. Rapidly growing solar penetration has eroded developer confidence in the profitability of gas-fired projects on the system — as evidenced by the lukewarm enthusiasm for the $5 billion Texas Energy Fund




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