Various corporations affiliated with the Texas power grid are household names in Houston. But what do they all do, and how exactly does the state’s electric grid work?  The power grid is a network of ...

According to Oncor, heavy lightning and straight-line winds of 75-80 mph have caused significant damage in North Texas. Track power outages here.

State officials and ERCOT, Texas' grid operator ... thousands of North Texans were without power Wednesday morning. Most of the outages were concentrated in Tarrant and Dallas counties, where ...

ERCOT said that the loss of those units, which sit near a problem area in the state’s transmission infrastructure, would increase the risks of power outages across the grid. Transmission ...

But ERCOT flipped the switch on the utility’s plan, saying the removal of the Braunig units would worsen a transmission problem near San Antonio, deepening the risk of cascading outages across ...

You can get in touch with James by emailing [email protected] In February 2021, the Texas power grid failed during a bitter winter storm causing widespread power outages across the state.

2021’s mass outages happened because power plants were unable to generate enough electricity to meet increased demand from heating systems across Texas, so ERCOT ordered power outages to prevent ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas issued a weather watch Monday for a possible freeze later this week as Gov. Greg Abbott warned Texans to prepare for what could be the "coldest weather ...