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.
Houston Chronicle10d
What's the difference between NRG, Reliant and CenterPoint? How the ERCOT power grid works.
The Texas power grid operator, explained ERCOT ... splitting each of those responsibilities into separate segments. This was meant to break up regional monopolies and introduce competition ...
Texas Senate passes bill to improve grid reliability, ready state for more data centers
The bill, which would improve grid reliability among other things, readies the state to support more data centers and AI ...
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Statement on the Unanimous Passage of Senate Bill 6 — Increasing Texas’ Electric Grid Reliability
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the unanimous passage of Senate Bill 6, Increasing Texas’ Electric ...
Community Impact3d
Grid reliability, housing affordability: Texas Senate passes slate of priority bills
Texas senators approved 20 bills on March 19, including proposals aimed at hardening the state power grid and increasing ...
Opinion
Artificial intelligence is in a financial bubble. The coming bust could cost Texans
Texas officials should think twice about committing taxpayer dollars to power AI, lest they waste tens of billions of public dollars.
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Texas ‘open’ for data center boom as lawmakers grapple with its challenges
Phil King’s North Central Texas backyard, where the data center that’s applied to connect to the statewide electric grid expects to need more than 200 megawatts of power a year to operate.
GVEC announces 'first in Texas' Tesla partnership to help power grid
A South Central Texas utility company announced a first-in-Texas partnership with Elon Musk's Tesla through the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.