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by why_only_15 859 days ago
Why did Texas not start building out batteries for ancillary services until recently? Did/do they not need as much ancillary services as PJM? Also -- do you know what happened to ancillary service pricing as batteries became cheaper? Did grids become much more stable in practice?
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Edit: cwal37 seems to be better clued into ERcOT's market https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39393321

That is beyond my knowledge; I know that PJM specifically set up a market for ancillary services that allowed battery operators to get paid. I assume ERCOT must have set up some sort of similar market, but I don't know the particulars...