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.

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 head of ERCOT said the lights and AC should stay on this summer. The forecast comes after a statewide inspection of the ...

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 Electric Reliability Council of Texas, ... ERCOT urges power plants to skip scheduled maintenance this week as temperatures climb. By Patrick M. Davis Texas Standard; Apr 16, 2024 ...

Dubbed by environmentalists as the “Dirty Deely,” the plant was a two-unit coal-fired plant that generated power for San Antonio from the late 1970s until Dec. 31, 2018. It still stands at ...

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 ...