A coin toss decides a tied Pasadena council race, new challengers join the 2026 Texas Senate race, and LGBTQ concerns surface at Houston City Hall.

More Respondents were asked, "Below are some proposals that the Texas Legislature considered this year. Please tell us whether you would support or oppose each of the following? Increasing funding to ...

It would spike risk, too, of conservation alerts and energy emergencies faced by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) at times of peak power demand on the state’s power grid.

After the Electric Reliability Council of Texas estimated in early 2025 that power demand could grow to about 150,000 megawatts by 2030, SB 6 adjusts how the grid operator measures future demand.

In a special meeting in May, City Council approved a task order for the San Gabriel Wastewater Interceptor Project authorizing HR Green to perform engineering services for Phase II and ...

American Electric Power Texas, which serves parts of south and west Texas, declined to comment. When the statewide freeze put record-high demand on the state's electrical grid, the Electric ...

Clean Energy Texas’ Risk of Summer Blackouts Reduced Thanks to Solar and Batteries The state’s grid operator reported less than a 1 percent chance of emergency events.

Solving the hurdle of creating highly reliable physical AI will require new approaches to data gathering, architectures for monitoring/interventions and systems thinking.

Texas consumes more electricity than any other state by a wide margin and ranks sixth in energy consumption per capita. It also is the only state in the lower 48 that operates its own power grid. That ...

President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill would cut Texas jobs, stifle innovation and drive up debt.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is the grid operator charged with ensuring reliable electric service for 90% of the state and is overseen by the Public Utility Commission of ...

Adapture Renewables and Meta have signed two EAPAs that will see the latter acquire power from a 360MW Texas solar portfolio.