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.

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

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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.