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Mitchell Schnurman

Recipe for a reliable Texas grid: A gas plant plus 22,000 batteries and backup fuel

GRANBURY, Texas — This is what modern reliability looks like on the Texas grid.

A 240-acre industrial site, along a bend of the Brazos River an hour’s drive southwest of Fort Worth, brings together old-school fossil fuels and the latest in renewables.

A natural gas power plant and a storage battery system work side by side, usually to meet the ever-rising demand for electricity in Texas. There’s also a week’s worth of backup diesel fuel on site, just in case.

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