President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) directing the Department of Energy (DOE) to take steps to expand the use of ...

The eclipse will pass over the ERCOT region between approximately 12:10 p.m. and 3:10 p.m. CT. A total solar eclipse will pass over the ERCOT region on Monday, April 8, 2024, between approximately ...

AUSTIN, Texas – Dan Diorio, senior state policy director at the Data Center Coalition, has discussed the economic development ...

Texas power grid operator ERCOT is projecting an explosion in energy demand over the next five years, with peak electricity use more than doubling as new data centers come online around the state.

Texas’ grid operator ERCOT projected electricity demand could hit 218 gigawatts by 2031, more than double the state’s record.

On March 24, 2025, the Texas Senate passed S.B. 388, a bill establishing a mandatory program for “dispatchable” power credits. The proposed ...

Not everyone was sold on ERCOT’s new methodology, though. “I guess y’all think you’re smarter than the people providing the electricity,” Rep. Charlie Geren told Vegas during a hearing ...

ERCOT has projected that power demand will increase ... King noted that some data center projects consume more power than entire regions of Texas. Representatives of OpenAI’s data center project ...