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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the time it takes to get new power online has decreased, beefing up transmission lines to handle that power still takes between three and five years. In its memo to regulators, ERCOT ...

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 ...

has been working for more than a decade with ERCOT to create the Southern Spirit Transmission. The approximately 320-mile transmission line would start at the Texas-Louisiana border and run ...

ERCOT’s Vegas said Tuesday. In comparison, the $30 billion-plus of proposed transmission lines would be for the next five to six years, equating to approximately $5 billion to $6 billion per ...

of Energy selected four “construction-ready” transmission ... the barrier between ERCOT and the rest of the country.” The Cimarron Link, a planned 400-mile, 1,900-MW line between Texas ...

American Electric Power, AEP Texas’ parent company, owns 2,110 miles of 765-kV transmission lines, more than any other transmission system in North America. AEP’s experience with 765-kV began ...

That’s longer than a cross-country drive, according to Google Maps ... ERCOT said the new power lines are essential to deliver more electricity. This time around, Texas must build transmission ...

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.