ERCOT's PRS is scheduled to vote on PGRR145 and NPRR1325 today, with the companion ROS vote tomorrow (May 7) and the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) final stakeholder vote May 19-20. PGRR145, filed March 4, would create the Batch Zero process for large load interconnections: a system-wide steady-state and stability screening study covering years 2028-2032, with two sequential phases. The package also operationalizes the Provisional Controllable Load Resource (PCLR) framework — an interim construct that lets large loads participate in Batch Zero by committing to partial firm service (Low Power Consumption / LPC) for a guaranteed allocation plus a curtailable / non-firm portion above LPC. Loads must submit a Declaration of Intent and PCLR-specific data by July 24 to participate. Comments filed to the docket include Rose City Partners, TEBA, and Crusoe.
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Why it matters
Today's PRS vote is the last stakeholder vote before the May 19-20 TAC, which is the de-facto industry-blessing step before ERCOT board approval — meaning whatever clears PRS today is structurally the rule that governs how ~119 GW of pending Texas large-load applications get triaged for the next 5+ years. This is the live wedge already covered in ercot-pclr-batch-zero.md and ercot-pclr-batch-zero-timeline.md, and Cliff's submission-validator product is designed against exactly this rule set. Three things to watch on today's vote: (1) Does PCLR get adopted as filed (LPC-firm + curtailable above LPC) or modified by stakeholder amendments? Crusoe and TEBA have filed substantive comments suggesting the LPC threshold and curtailment-economics math need revision. The submission-validator code path needs to know what the final LPC math is by close of business today — anyone who runs validation on July 23 (the day before the Declaration of Intent deadline) using the wrong LPC math will produce wrong scores. (2) Does the Year-6 deliverability deferral hold? The PGRR145 base case defers full-load deliverability to future transmission upgrades after the Year-6 mark, which lets ERCOT approve a higher headline GW number now while pushing the firm-MW reckoning down the road. If stakeholders strip the deferral language out at PRS, the headline 119 GW gets a haircut today and the Cliff calculator's firm-equivalent-MW-underwrite.md base case needs to retake its delta. (3) The PRS vote outcome is also the immediate read-through to ercot-puc-58317-sb6-implementation-workshop.md (Texas SB 6) and ercot-puc-58777-load-realization-docket.md — both PUC dockets reference Batch Zero by name, and any PRS-to-PUC inconsistency that emerges from today's vote becomes a discrete docket-arbitrage opportunity for sites that filed pre-Batch-Zero. Pull the meeting recording tonight; the ROS vote tomorrow (May 7) is the second confirmation point.
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