“We are prepared for this summer,” ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas said at Tuesday’s board meeting in Austin. Vegas told board members ...

ERCOT has issued a Weather Watch from January 20-23 due to forecasted extreme cold weather across the ERCOT region, higher ...

Along with a steady string of conservation appeals during last summer’s record heat, ERCOT set an all-time high peak demand of 85,435 megawatts in August as Texans were running air conditioners ...

A grid emergency occurs when reserves go below 2,500 megawatts, the amount needed to power 625,000 Texas homes during the hottest summer days. ERCOT can initiate rotating outages in the final ...

The same happened recently after Hurricane Beryl ravaged parts of southeast Texas. ABC13 has reached out to CenterPoint ...

Texas must build transmission largely to support oil and gas electrification and to host more power-intensive cryptocurrency ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the organization that operates the state's power grid, has issued a Weather Watch ...

On Jan. 2, Amanda DeWitt purchased an 8-foot-long antique Louis XVI marble-top buffet that felt extra heavy Former Presidents ...

ERCOT did indeed issue a conservation alert ... However, this activity was less pronounced than in previous winter events or summer heat waves because generation reserves were more abundant across the ...

What does this mean for power generation during the rest of the hot Texas summer? ERCOT hasn’t said — or released data to answer any of these questions raised by industry experts. And that is ...

Approximately 12,000 megawatts of power generation were offline Monday afternoon — enough to power 2.4 million homes on a hot summer day. That’s several times more than what ERCOT would ...