Battery storage facilities and solar farms powered virtually all capacity growth in Texas’ electric grid throughout 2025, as the home of the nation’s oil and gas industry created almost twice as much ...

June 10 (Reuters) - Energy infrastructure company Sempra (SRE.N), opens new tab said on Wednesday that it has received approvals for new transmission projects in Texas which, ‌along with earlier ...

Early August will bring important decisions for companies rushing to build data centers in Texas, including Skybox Datacenters of Dallas, which purchased property in the Wichita Falls Business Park.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages about 90 percent of the state's power, is waving a warning flag: The ERCOT grid may set a new record for peak demand in summer 2026. Based on ...

Texas heat is unbearable as it is, but ERCOT is preparing for a summer that could push electricity demand to new records while bringing temperatures comparable to some of the hottest years in state ...

Under Texas law, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (“ERCOT”), the independent system operator for the electric grid, is subject to pervasive oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas ...

That emergency came just two years after the state's power grid failed during ahistoric freeze, leaving millions of Texans without power or heat. Texas is once again facing record summertime demand, ...

When Texas faced one of its hottest summers on record in 2023, its power grid neared failure and the state narrowly avoided rotating blackouts. That emergency came just two years after the state's ...

ERCOT requires deposits, signed leases, equipment orders & contracted customers for data centers to join grid studies. Trump voters react to report showing $2 billion in 2025 income What happens if ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The Texas Energy Fund has ...

So many data centers are clamoring to connect to the Texas power grid that it’s hard to figure out which projects are actually serious, grid officials say. In response, the Electric Reliability ...