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As Valerie Paxton describes it, the solar array at the La Loma Community Solar Farm is performing a sort of "magic" – the ...

This summary is reviewed by TRD Staff. Texas's power grid operator, ERCOT, projects peak electricity demand to reach 218 gigawatts by 2031, more than double the 2023 record of 85.5 GW. Data ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the nonprofit corporation that operates the isolated power grid serving 90% of the state’s electricity needs, is infamous for the February 2021 winter ...

Texas lawmakers are trying to figure out how the state’s already-strained power grid can possibly keep up, when Stargate and some of the other data centers that want to come to the state ...

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

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 ...

The current pitch takes intervention several steps further in a way experts say could stall development of new generation the Texas power grid needs to keep up with rapidly increasing demand ...

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 ...

Blackout causes nearly all of Puerto Rico to lose power on New Year’s Eve The private company that oversees electricity transmission and distribution says it appears the outage was caused by a ...

ODESSA — Texas is growing. People are moving to the state in droves. Companies want to build their facilities here.