ERCOT still has to decide the future of Braunig ... The units would be put at substations around San Antonio where they can help ease transmission issues. The $53 million estimate covers the ...

“All consumers benefit from resolving the reliability issue,” Chad Seely, ERCOT general counsel ... will be relocated from Houston, placed at substations around San Antonio and fired ...

But only a week before, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, ERCOT, issued a sobering report that said the state’s demand for power could outpace supply by summer 2026. CEO Pablo Vegas ...

Private investment in electricity grids offers hope for improvements. The Southern Spirit project is a good example. Here's ...

The ERCOT Board of Directors convene for a meeting at the organization's headquarters in Austin on Dec. 3, 2024. (Noah Devereaux For The Texas Tribune, Noah Devereaux For The Texas Tribune ...

ERCOT wants to set up the generators at substations around San Antonio’s problem circuit, which makes a loop around the city. While the generators wouldn’t be running constantly, they would be ...

CenterPoint won’t earn any revenue from the arrangement. But it will still cost ERCOT approximately $54 million to use those diesel generators in the San Antonio region to prevent broader grid ...

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 ...

Texas’ main grid operator on Tuesday approved a $54 million plan to replace two aging natural gas-powered plants near San Antonio with the massive mobile generators that CenterPoint Energy came ...