It is important for BPUB to optimize its generation mix, market participation, and long-term planning to enhance resilience, affordability, and sustainability.
With aging generation assets, evolving market dynamics in ERCOT, and growing demand, including potential large industrial loads, BPUB must make critical decisions about infrastructure investments, ownership strategies, and participation models, while balancing risk, cost, and community expectations.
BPUB will build understanding in the community of its role, services, and the value of municipal ownership, while offering opportunities for involvement.
BPUB will assess the feasibility, cost-effectiveness, and strategic value of new electric generation options—both self-owned and contracted—consistent with the 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) to enhance long-term capacity, grid resiliency, and rate stability for BPUB customers.
BPUB will develop a plan for integrating DERs, DSM programs, and advanced technologies into its power supply planning and operations, to increase system flexibility, reliability, and customer participation.
Municipal Natural Gas Utility Authority - BPUB will establish a Natural Gas Utility Planning Task Force, commission a comprehensive feasibility study to evaluate the viability, risks, and benefits of each strategic option, and conduct a comprehensive inventory mapping of Cross-Valley Pipeline easements.
Municipal Natural Gas Utility Authority - BPUB will prepare preliminary regulatory filings and initiate consultations with the Railroad Commission of Texas, TCEQ, and PHMSA, and develop a legal framework for potential asset acquisition or transition from Texas Gas Service.
Municipal Natural Gas Utility Authority - BPUB will commission engineering studies to evaluate infrastructure scenarios, including pipeline construction, industrial service connections, and alternative uses.
BPUB will conduct stakeholder engagement, develop financial modeling for each strategic option, and explore funding mechanisms.
Municipal Natural Gas Utility Authority - BPUB will publish a Strategic Readiness Report and develop a Decision Matrix to evaluate trade-offs among strategic options.
BPUB will invest in GIS and asset management systems, staff training, and policy monitoring to support long-term readiness and ensure BPUB remains informed of regulatory and market developments.
BPUB will optimize electric and gas market participation strategies to mitigate volatility and enhance financial resilience, including the potential for transmission or retail service roles.
BPUB will establish itself as an ERCOT Certified Level 1 Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE), enabling BPUB to manage its energy, scheduling, dispatch, market settlements, and ERCOT compliance independently, enhancing operational flexibility and supporting market strategies such as DER and DSM.
