In light of recent news regarding the state's power grid run by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Xcel Energy wants to assure the Texas Panhandle community that their situation ...

On Jan.1, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) created the Houston zone to discourage congestion on electricity transmission lines and control costs. Congestion costs soared last ...

The recently completed Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ ... and eastern Texas. ERCOT currently is studying whether additional enhancements will be needed to support increasing development of ...

Most of the Panhandle and chunks of East Texas belong to the Eastern grid interconnection. The El Paso region is connected to the Western power grid. ERCOT issues conservation alerts to power ...

An Extreme Cold Warning is in place for parts of the Panhandle and West Texas where wind chills as low as 25 degrees below zero are possible. Monday morning, ERCOT said it had 8,505 megawatts in ...

For example, the Panhandle is closer to Kansas than to Dallas. The main culprit for the power outages in ERCOT’s coverage area was failures across Texas’ natural gas operations and supply ...

In a Monday post on X, formerly Twitter, the operator announced it had issued a weather watch between February 19 and 21 "due to forecasted extreme cold weather across the ERCOT region ...

DALLAS — Texas is getting its fill of winter weather to start 2024, beginning with snow and blizzard conditions in the Panhandle ... Council of Texas (ERCOT) on Friday issued an extension ...

Mesa Power, formed earlier this year, said the project could have as many as 2,700 turbines on up to 200,000 acres in Roberts and adjacent counties in the Texas Panhandle. ERCOT, which operates as ...

Transmission congestion in the Panhandle and Houston region is the one negative factor that has constrained wind increasing its market share even more in the summer. April was also noteworthy in that ...

Wind remains on target to set generation records this year within the main Texas electric grid, after it gained an 17.3% share of that market through August, versus 15.1% for all of 2016, latest ...