Electricity Grid

A Texas lawmaker wants to delay when the school year starts to help lessen strain on the state's power grid. Experts say it wouldn't make a difference.

Repairing electricity infrastructure after storms usually costs customers. So could strengthening it before the next weather event.

The announcement came soon after a new prediction by the state’s main grid operator that power demands will nearly double by 2030.

Power grid anxiety is nothing new in Texas. But a surge in artificial intelligence data centers is posing a new challenge to an already fragile energy system.

Electricity demand is increasing with rising temperatures, but it’s still maintenance season for power plants, causing a supply crunch.

Amid hotter-than-expected weather, the state’s grid regulator wants plants online and available to supply electricity to meet increased demand.

The former Austin City Council member's Connect the Grid Act would mandate that ERCOT create new interconnections with neighboring power grids.

Some companies, facing pressure from investors, are electrifying drilling processes.

In oral arguments on Tuesday, the Texas Supreme Court was asked not to decide whether regulators made the right call, but whether they acted within their authority when they set energy prices to the max.

Over a third of the electricity on the Texas grid came from the sun on Sunday, a new state record.

Dallas Morning News Watchdog columnist Dave Lieber reports power lines would go through Louisiana to partially connect Texas’ ERCOT grid with power sources in Mississippi.

When compared with other regional grids, it appears Texas issues more requests for consumers to conserve energy. The recent freeze reignited frustrations over the requests and the grid operators.