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Houston startup secures $22 million for ERCOT energy storage projects

John Egan
Apr 4, 2025, 9:00 am
Houston's GoodPeak is breaking ground on its first energy storage projects. Photo via Getty Images.

Houston-based GoodPeak has nailed down $22 million in construction debt financing to help build its first two 10-megawatt battery energy storage projects, both of which are expected to come online in the Houston area at the end of 2025.

GoodPeak secured the debt financing from financial services company Pathward and renewable energy lender BridgePeak Energy Capital.

GoodPeak says an undisclosed amount of funding from private equity firm Current Equity Partners and other investors will further spur growth. That growth starts with the construction of the two Houston-area battery energy storage projects, which will serve the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), whose power grid serves most of the state.

Aside from Current Equity Partners, investors in GoodPeak include executives, family offices, and energy industry advisers.

“GoodPeak plans to expand and diversify its development pipeline to include larger projects, integrated power generation, and data center development opportunities,” the company says in a news release.

GoodPeak’s initial development pipeline includes 10 ERCOT projects in the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth areas, and 14 projects in Northern California. The combined capacity of the projects will be 1 gigawatt.

Founded in 2022 by Trent Kososki and Hayden Stanley, GoodPeak develops, owns, and operates utility-scale battery storage and solar power assets for “high-value, capacity-constrained locations.”

“Breaking ground on our first energy storage projects marks a major milestone for GoodPeak in helping to solve Texas’ grid challenges,” says Kososki, CEO of GoodPeak. “These projects will provide much-needed resilience to the grid, storing excess power during times of low demand and delivering it when it’s needed most — helping to stabilize energy prices, support renewable integration, and enhance overall reliability.”

In a 2024 LinkedIn post, Kososki wrote that he was “embarking upon a new adventure in establishing GoodPeak — a battery energy storage platform with a mission to aggressively pursue descent from the world’s mountain of carbon emissions.”

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Houston organization proposes Gulf Coast index for hydrogen market

The Clean Hydrogen Buyers Alliance plans to create the Gulf Coast Hydrogen Index to bring to bring transparency and confidence to hydrogen pricing. Photo via Getty Images

The Clean Hydrogen Buyers Alliance has proposed an index aimed at bringing transparency to pricing in the emerging hydrogen market.

The Houston-based alliance said the Gulf Coast Hydrogen Index, based on real-time data, would provide more clarity to pricing in the global market for hydrogen. The benchmarking effort is being designed to benefit clean hydrogen buyers, sellers and investors. The index would help position the U.S. “as the trading anchor for hydrogen’s next chapter as a globally traded commodity,” the alliance said.

According to ResearchAndMarkets.com, the global market for clean hydrogen was valued at $200 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $700 billion by 2040.

John Flory, president of the alliance, said the lack of a pricing index has relegated hydrogen to niche-market status.

“Capital is waiting. Buyers are ready. But until now, there’s been no credible, transparent pricing signal to guide clean hydrogen investing or contracting,” Edward Morse, co-chairman of the Clean Hydrogen Transaction Advisory Committee, said in a news release.

The index would treat the Gulf Coast as the primary delivery hub for pipeline-grade hydrogen in three categories: basic, low-carbon and ultra-low-carbon. It would be similar to the Henry Hub index for pricing of natural gas.

Roger Ballentine, co-chairman of the clean energy advisory committee, said the hydrogen index would build confidence in this energy source among government agencies, companies and investors. A Henry Hub-style benchmark for hydrogen “provides clarity, reduces risk, and lays the foundation for clean energy to become a globally traded commodity critical to decarbonization,” he said.

The Gulf Coast, with Texas as the focal point, is key to the evolution of the U.S. clean hydrogen economy, according to the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association.

At the core of the Gulf Coast’s role is the U.S. Department of Energy's selection of the Gulf Coast as one of the country’s seven regional hubs for clean hydrogen. However, the DOE has proposed cutting funding for the HyVelocity Gulf Coast Hydrogen Hub, a $1.2 billion development in Texas and Louisiana by AES, Air Liquide, Chevron, ExxonMobil, MHI Hydrogen Infrastructure and Ørsted, according to a new list of proposed DOE funding cancellations.

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