This month, electricity customers on the ERCOT grid used a whopping 85,435 megawatts - a 7% jump from the highest-demand day last year. That difference represents enough power for 1 million homes ...

On Thursday, Daniel Woodfin, ERCOT’s vice president of system operations, said about 100 megawatts of the shortfall was from large-scale batteries that were out of juice or experiencing faults.

How ERCOT is narrowly getting through an ... They directed companies that use large amounts of power to scale back and told transmission operators to reduce the voltage of electricity ...

ERCOT gets OK to use high-voltage lines, creating Texas power superhighway. PUC chair calls $33 billion plan the 'right answer' for Texas as demand sees unprecedented growth.

Record-high power demand and faltering electricity sources have tested the grid in the past month, forcing the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to dig deep into its toolbox to keep power flowing.

A view of high voltage transmission towers on February 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. While extremely hot weather is driving record power demand across the state, wind ...

Temperatures have been so high recently the state's energy grid operator, ERCOT, asked Texans to voluntarily cut back on energy - twice in the past few days. The latest request was Sunday night ...

ERCOT can get a limited amount of power from neighboring grids, up to 1,220 megawatts. EEA Level 2: Operating reserves fall below 1,750 MW and ERCOT does not expect it to recover within 30 minutes.

A company called Pattern Energy is building a 320-mile, $2.6 billion high-voltage connector called Southern Spirit Transmission, which will run from Garland through Louisiana to Mississippi ...