The deregulated Texas electricity market has three separate segments: retail electric providers, transmission and ...

Track wildfire activity across the state with this interactive map. Description: The Texas A&M Forest Service crews were helping fight a wildfire in Gillespie County on Lower Crabapple Road on ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than 1,200 acres have burned in wildfires across Central Texas so far in 2025 ... Follow along with the map and database below. We’ll keep them updated as new information ...

The National Weather Service issued a weather watch for Texas that begins Tuesday night ... Currently, ERCOT expects the grid to operate normally, with no request for conservation.

That's because the price of electricity depends on more than just the price of oil and gas. It is also affected by local utilities' investment in infrastructure, whether the state is vulnerable to ...

Texas' main grid operator on Thursday forecast that the state's growing demand for power could surpass its available energy supply beginning in summer 2026. In a report outlining potential supply ...

Languages: English. Twitter: @JBickertonUK. You can get in touch with James by emailing j.bickerton@newsweek.com In February 2021, the Texas power grid failed during a bitter winter storm causing ...

The Texas power grid served record-breaking wintertime demand for a second-straight day Thursday. Demand on the grid operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas topped 80.5 gigawatts ...

"We encourage customers to plan for potential power outages later this week due to the weather," the utility company said ...

Xcel Energy is preparing for high wind speeds on Friday which will increase the wildfire risk across the area.

is being explored as dispatchable generation into the Texas wholesale energy market to improve year-round grid stability and reliability," the news release says. According to GVEC, customers can ...