This month, electricity customers on the ERCOT grid used a whopping 85,435 megawatts - a 7% jump from the highest-demand day last year. That difference represents enough power for 1 million homes ...

ERCOT said Monday that energy generator owners have reported about 11,000 MegaWatts of generation are on forced outage for repairs, including about 8,000 MW of thermal energy.

Texas ERCOT urges Texans to cut power use as grid threatened for first time since 2021 blackout ERCOT, which serves most of the state's 30 million residents, issued a level 2 emergency alert ...

TEXAS, USA — ERCOT has issued another conservation appeal. They’re asking Texans to save energy on Tuesday between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m., if it’s safe to do so. According to a release sent out ...

ERCOT has already set several records for peak demand this summer. On Aug. 7, peak demand was at 84,029 megawatts, unofficially breaking records set on Aug. 1, July 31, July 18, July 17 and ...

ERCOT paid bitcoin mining company Riot Platforms $2.5 million in September for voluntarily reducing its energy consumption as Texas’ historic heat wave pummeled the state’s battle-tested ...

And now, ERCOT is facing another daunting challenge: How to meet sky-high electricity demand projections from the many power-intensive facilities seeking to move to Texas, so the grid operator ...

ERCOT, which among other things acts as a clearinghouse for buyers and sellers on the grid, said this week that it hasn't received payment on invoices totaling nearly $2.5 billion so far that were ...

ERCOT told power generators Monday they would again need to defer planned outages for maintenance and keep producing power to keep the lights on across the state, extending their warning of ...

ERCOT previously said it has conducted on-site inspections this winter at 302 generators — which were responsible for about 85% of the generation capacity knocked offline during the February ...