The main power system for the state of Texas is bracing for a surge in electricity demand as a heat wave is forecast to drive ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state's main power grid operator, needs all the generation ... but a new oil ...

Renewable energy is getting us through his heat wave. So why is the Legislature trying to sideline these sources. We need an ...

A new report from ICF suggests that the U.S. can meet its growing electricity demands with an all-of-the-above energy approach while boosting generation using existing infrastructure.

Rep. Patterson and Sen. Sparks pointed to a recent study from the right-leaning Texas Public Policy Foundation that says ...

Here’s how MIT Technology Review waded through a mess of data and hidden variables to calculate the individual and collective ...

The legislature is advancing three bills that will trample on private property rights and give natural gas a leg up in the ...

“Dispatchable” is a term for sources of electricity that can ... there doesn’t have the kind of emergency back-up power programs ERCOT uses in the event of a sudden drop in frequency.

Despite soaring power demand, Republican lawmakers in the Texas Legislature are pushing to rein in renewable energy, part of ...

Data centers and a rising population are driving the need for vastly more power. Some legislators want to make it harder to ...