ERCOT / Batch Zero / PCLR / June 1 board → July 24 deadline

Plain-English framing: ERCOT runs the Texas grid. It received so many giant new load requests (the queue is over 230 GW, more than 70% data centers) that the normal process — make every project wait years for full transmission upgrades — would freeze the whole pipeline. Batch Zero is a one-time amnesty-style cluster study to clear that backlog under a shared set of rules. PCLR is the deal inside Batch Zero. A 'Controllable Load Resource' is a load that agrees to be turned down on command. The 'provisional' version lets a data center connect now and use power up to a guaranteed firm level (its 'Low Power Consumption' floor), with everything above that subject to ERCOT curtailing it in real time until the grid upgrades that would let it run at full power are complete. In exchange the project skips years of waiting. It is the load-side mirror of how curtailable generation already plugs in elsewhere. The dates are the product. June 1 board approval and July 10 effective date are calendar-fixed. July 24 is the one developers act on: that is when an interested large load must file its Declaration of Intent and modeling data to claim a Batch Zero slot. Miss it and you wait for the ordinary process. Sources: EPE Consulting 'New Pathway and Deadlines in ERCOT's Batch Zero: PCLR'; ERCOT '145PGRR-01 Batch Zero Process for Large Load Interconnections'; Zero Emission Grid 'ERCOT Batch Zero Workshop #7'; Seyfarth Shaw 'ERCOT's Batch Zero Proposal and What It Means for Large-Load Projects in Texas'; cross-referenced with strategy/ercot-pclr-batch-zero-timeline.md.

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