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GVEC lands a landmark partnership with Tesla Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Guadalupe County) -- GVEC is announcing a landmark partnership with Tesla. The partnership is making the electric co-op the first in Texas to participate with Tesla as a utilityscale virtual power plant resource in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Aggregated Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) pilot program. Through the ADER program, the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as battery storage systems and other controllable devices, is being explored as dispatchable generation into the Texas wholesale energy market to improve year-round grid stability and reliability. Celebrating the news is GVEC General Manager and CEO Darren Schauer. “Tesla has been a major player in the ADER pilot program since its inception. They are a highly visible company with the capabilities and expertise to meet the robust participation requirements. As an additional benefit, GVEC can offer ancillary services directly onto the market. This means GVEC Powerwall members can now support the needs
of the Texas grid while also creating a new revenue stream to reinforce the long-term financial strength of their member-owned cooperative. Schauer adds, “This partnership is a strong addition to the proactive steps GVEC has already taken to expand DER programs for our members. As opportunities and technologies continue to evolve, GVEC will continue to seek new ways to spur the advancement of impactful solutions for the Cooperative, our members, and the electric industry.” Schauer says because of the value that this creates for GVEC, they can share this benefit with its membership. “We are able to share that with our membership and help to discount the batteries or to provide rebates to the members, to encourage them to install the batteries and encourage them to allow us to have access to them. With those incentives that we are able to provide, we can get batteries into homes of members with very little costs. So, they have the benefit of having a backup energy in their home – the Tesla Powerwall batteries in their homes -Tesla, pg. 4
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