After the deadly February 2021 freeze, the Legislature put in place weatherization standards for power plants. ERCOT has conducted widespread inspections of power plant to ensure those rules are ...

Heading into last weekend, ERCOT asked power plants to postpone planned maintenance outages and to lift any outages in progress because of the hotter-than-normal May temperatures.

And what ERCOT did last Friday was basically tell those power plants, “hold your roll, don’t shut down – we might need you to come online, because it’s going to be hotter than we thought ...

Austin’s Decker Creek Power Station, a gas-fired plant, is also on ERCOT’s winter wish list and once produced 428 megawatts of power. It closed in 2020 amid Austin Energy’s efforts to lower ...

ERCOT officials reassure Texans the grid has enough power to meet demand during the winter storm. See the dashboard for grid status and conditions.

The peak electricity demand on the state’s power grid is expected to reach 68,286 megawatts Friday at 10:00 a.m., according to ERCOT’s latest seven-day load forecast.

Last June, Gov. Greg Abbott announced there was “an overwhelming response” to the state’s first Texas Energy Fund. On ...

With hard freezes in the forecast for Texas, the state's grid will be put to the test -- a test the ERCOT CEO is confident it will pass.

ERCOT has forecast that the state’s peak power demand could jump 70% by 2031 if just half the data centers and other power-hungry facilities proposed for the state are built.

The peak electricity demand on the state’s power grid is expected to reach 68,286 megawatts Friday at 10:00 a.m., according to ERCOT’s latest seven-day load forecast.

The peak electricity demand on the state’s power grid is expected to reach 68,286 megawatts Friday at 10:00 a.m., according to ERCOT’s latest seven-day load forecast.

HOUSTON — The new head of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said Tuesday there will be enough power to meet demand as an arctic blast moves through the state later this week. “We ...