Dallas Observer - How A Weird Midlothian Container Yard Is Bolstering Texas’ Power Grid
- esVolta
- 4 days ago
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August 15 2025
On August 15, 2025, the Dallas Observer published an interview with esVolta CEO, Randolph Mann about the company’s ERCOT portfolio of 3 BESS facilities, two of which contribute to the Dallas Fort-Worth (DFW) grid. The article explores how the sites are supporting DFW’s growing need for reliable, lower-carbon energy and feature advanced fire prevention and battery recycling plans, in addition to their community investments via tax revenue and direct support of local organizations.
The article quoted esVolta CEO Randolph Mann:
“Texas has a good economy,” said Mann. “You guys are growing your economy, there's growth from data centers, and a lot of it. The AI movement is creating growth. You also have growth from manufacturing. You have growth from just population growth. All of that stuff creates the need for more energy resources.”
“There's a lot of intermittency and volatility on the grid,” he said. “And what storage is able to do is balance all that stuff out to help make sure that moment-to-moment supply and demand are equal. And that's a service that storage is providing to the grid.”
“Energy storage is a really good solution for the grid to maintain the capacity that it needs and maintain the flexibility that it needs.The reason is really that, fundamentally, what energy storage is doing is it's buying power when there's more than enough power on the grid, and therefore, power prices are cheap.”
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