PUCT Large Load Demand Management comment deadline draws new filings
Public Utility Commission of Texas Project 58482 (Large Load Demand Management Service, proposed new 16 Texas Administrative Code section 25.521) reached its September 4 comment deadline on the proposal for publication. The Interchange index moved from 35 filings as of August 31 to 38 by early September 4, with new comment stamps on September 3 from the Office of Public Utility Counsel and Texas Industrial Energy Consumers, and on September 4 from the Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance. The proposed rule would have ERCOT competitively procure demand reductions from large-load customers (entities with total non-coincident peak demand at a single site of 75 megawatts or more) for use in anticipated emergency conditions, and it includes related firm-load-shed and budget-cap mechanics. Covered campus owners are not named as filers in these three new items; the filings are party comments on the published proposal, not interconnection decisions for specific sites.
Why it matters
The comment window closing is the next step toward a final Large Load Demand Management Service rule that would sit beside Senate Bill 6 curtailment and Batch Zero interconnection rules for ERCOT-connected AI and high-performance-computing campuses.
Companies
- Hut 8
- Core Scientific
- Cipher Digital
- Bitdeer
- Riot
- MARA
- CleanSpark
- TeraWulf
- Applied Digital
- Keel Infrastructure
Risks
- Comment letters are advocacy positions, not a final commission order.
- The published proposal’s budget cap and eligibility details can change after staff and commissioner review.
- Timing from comment close to adoption and ERCOT protocol implementation remains open.