The plan calls for the construction of 765-kilovolt transmission lines, which are designed to carry more electricity than the 345-kilovolt lines currently standard in the ERCOT grid. The Public ...

Like highways, transmission lines get congested when they're carrying too much traffic, with the resulting traffic jams creating problems across the state. ERCOT has already intervened to manage ...

Hundreds of residents from the Big Country gathered in Sweetwater on Tuesday for the second of three open house events hosted ...

It’s the first step in a $33 billion plan to build a statewide system of lines that will carry more ... “Our location near the center of the ERCOT transmission system makes us a critical ...

ERCOT has yet to find an answer to a chokepoint ... needs more electricity than is available to be serviced by the transmission lines, that's a choke point. And so, what we've seen come out ...

on Thursday approved a plan to build the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) region's first extra high voltage transmission lines to meet the Permian Basin's rapidly growing power needs.