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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This new system will operate all of Sharyland’s transmission assets located throughout ERCOT, including the ... constructing in the Texas Panhandle and South Plains as part of Texas’ Competitive ...

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 ...