ERCOT’s unique connect-and-manage interconnection process is significantly faster than that of any other US energy market. Tyler Norris, a Ph.D. student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, spoke to Utility Dive how other markets could use ERCOT's template to speed up interconnection queues and reduce the cost of network upgrades.

Texas is quickly adding solar, wind, and storage to its grid by using a relatively simple interconnection process. Now, 24 industry participants have expressed support for the use of a similarly streamlined process across the nation, according to Duke University researcher Tyler Norris. PV Magazine quotes Norris's latest insights from a series of posts on BlueSky and LinkedIn.

Utilities in some states are proposing new natural gas plants to keep up with rising electricity demand. “I can’t recall the last time I was so alarmed about the country’s energy trajectory,” Tyler Norris, a power systems expert and PhD student at the Nicholas School of the Environment told The New York Times. Norris wrote a policy brief last year that provides an example of an innovative regulatory solution that could push utilities toward clean energy sources.

The Department of Energy and others are looking to the "connect and manage" process employed by Texas grid operator ERCOT to connect energy generators to the grid more quickly. Tyler Norris, a Ph.D. student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, talked with Utility Dive about his Nicholas Institute policy brief exploring how lessons from ERCOT's experience could influence interconnection reform across the country.

ERCOT is connecting power generators in Texas faster than any other electricity market in the country. In this episode of the Catalyst podcast, Tyler Norris, a Ph.D. student at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment, talks about his recently published policy brief on how the United States could reform its interconnection process, applying lessons from ERCOT.

Texas grid operator ERCOT is enabling rapid growth in solar and wind capacity through an interconnection process known as “connect and manage.” Tyler Norris, a Ph.D. student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, spoke to PV Magazine about his recent Nicholas Institute policy brief exploring how that approach could be applied across the rest of the United States.