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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a $216 million state loan to fund a 456-megawatt natural gas power plant in Houston.
After reaching the end of their automotive lives, the batteries are being reused to provide lower-cost grid energy storage.
Houston-based power generation giant NRG Energy was approved for a $216 million loan Monday from the state-run Texas Energy ...
A newly passed law in Texas requires emergency shutoff switches for data centers, including the massive $500 billion AI ...
Battery packs that no longer have enough juice to power an EV are being repurposed to stabilize the power grid.
The state's grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, reported a less than 1% chance of an emergency this ...
Energy experts and researchers said a different kind of electricity demand is quietly surging in Texas: data centers.
Rural communities didn’t get into renewables for politics. They did it because it worked. They need stability, not sudden ...
President Donald Trump claims that rapid adoption of solar and wind power has made U.S. electricity unstable and expensive, ...
Texas' power grid appears to have held up through this week's cold snap. Power outages were local, caused by things like ice on power lines. Fewer power plants were offline than there had been ...
Michele Richmond, executive director of Texas Competitive Power Advocates, wrote in her comments to the commission that the group's members were "ready to bring more than 4,500 (megawatts) of ...
Texas energy experts say the Wall Street Journal editorial board ignores other potential reasons — inflation, most significantly — for power cost increases.