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.

ERCOT says that in the long run, they’d wind up paying less with the higher-voltage system, which reduces costs by increasing efficiency. READ NEXT: As data centers boom, CPS Energy works on $1 ...

Sara DiNatale covers energy, the Texas grid, ERCOT, CPS Energy, and labor for the San Antonio Express-News. She can be reached at (210) 446-3358, [email protected], or @sara_dinatale ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

ERCOT extends weather watch through Aug. 11 02:14. AUSTIN (CBSNewsTexas.com) – ERCOT has extended its weather watch through Friday, warning that power reserves could be low as extreme heat ...

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 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 ...