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

The state's main electricity operator is confident of avoiding a repeat of the blackouts that hit in 2021 following severe ...

Some energy experts said the numbers could be deceiving, pointing to changes in how the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, forecasts the numbers.

The same is true in Waco and Hillsboro, where a planned data center is calling for 828 megawatts of power per year. That ...

Virtual power plants” fed by connected pools of residential power could be key in stabilizing the Texas grid. But technology ...

All Texans connected to the state grid will now pay for the generators rather than just CenterPoint customers.

And some experts cautioned that the assumptions ERCOT used were flawed and more pessimistic than what's likely to happen. The parameters in the report "better represent the performance of grid ...

RELATED: Texas grid to face Thursday test, ERCOT forecasts winter demand record ERCOT doesn’t immediately validate demand records, but this week’s peaks topped a record of 78 gigawatts that ...

AUSTIN — Power grid operator ERCOT’s worst-case projections show Texas coming up short in power supply as soon as 2027 amid growing concerns about the potential impact of power-hungry data ...

Pablo Vegas, the CEO of Texas grid operator ERCOT, said supply will be lowest compared to demand around 8 a.m. Thursday. However, about 10,000 megawatts of operating reserves will help keep the ...

On Wednesday, according to live grid conditions, ERCOT had about 10,000 megawatts of pad in case a generator suddenly went offline. One megawatt can power about 250 homes. Vegas said ERCOT ...

Currently, ERCOT expects the grid to operate normally, with no request for conservation. The weather watch will be in place for three days from Feb. 19-21. Some Texans expressed their pessimism ...