Texas lawmakers propose new regulations to protect the power grid from huge data center demand growth
Senate Bill 6 is a priority bill of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to strengthen the Texas power grid as data centers come to the state ...
Opinion
Lack of grid infrastructure undermines economic growth and costs Texans billions
From 2021 to 2024, transmission congestion within ERCOT cost consumers more than $7 billion — passed along to electric bills.
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What's the difference between NRG, Reliant and CenterPoint? How the ERCOT power grid works.
Various corporations affiliated with the Texas power grid are household names in Houston ... you can report outages to the company via its upgraded outage map. DEEP DIVE: CenterPoint has ...
Natural gas-boosting bill aims to stabilize Texas grid. It could make it worse.
Developers of renewable generation would be required to match it with new gas-fired generation, which could be impossible.
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Meta secures more solar power for Texas data centers with Avangrid project now online
Avangrid's True North Solar project near Waco, Texas, has achieved commercial operation. It is Avangrid's largest solar ...
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Texas Senate approves bill to enhance electric grid reliability
The Texas Senate has unanimously passed Senate Bill 6, a measure designed to enhance the state's electric grid reliability ...
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Texas Senate passes bill to improve grid reliability, ready state for more data centers
Conversations about Texas' grid have heightened in recent years since the deadly winter storm of February 2021, when Texas' power grid — which is managed by the Electric Reliability Council of ...
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Why a Reagan-era conservative economist is telling Texas to slow down on energy subsidies
Given that the grid-managing Electric Reliability Council of Texas projects the state needs to boost its present generating capacity of 85,000 megawatts to 150,000 megawatts by the end of the ...