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

Texas lawmakers ... Ensuring there is enough transmission capacity is critical because power lines can only carry so much electricity. A shortage of transmission lines cost ERCOT customers $2 ...

Republican-led legislation that barreled through the state Senate has the solar and wind industries tied in knots — and the Texas ... “ERCOT, at that moment in time, cut the transmission line ...

Oncor Electric is planning to build a large transmission line that will run from Glen Rose to Forsan Texas, and all of the ...

Large companies, he added, are requiring ERCOT to plan “for load growth at dramatically higher levels than experienced ever in the history of Texas ... of transmission lines and purchase ...

The legislation, which now returns to the Senate for review, encourages large-scale users to develop backup power sources.

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It would then head to the governor’s office. The bill would allow ERCOT, which oversees the Texas power grid, to make more accurate demand projections. In recent months, the power grid operator ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, expects demand to peak at 84,000 megawatts on Wednesday. Last May, we set a record of 77,000 megawatts. According to the power grid manager ...

S.E. Jenkins is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. She has also been a Digital Content Producer in Tallahassee and Myrtle Beach. S.E. graduated with journalism degrees from Texas State ...