The Public Utility Commission has called a special meeting for Friday in a University of Texas hotel ballroom rather than its own hearing room, and put nothing on the agenda but two Oncor applications for what would be among the first 765-kilovolt transmission lines in Texas.
The clearest signal out of a nine-hour Texas House hearing on data centers Aug. 19 was not about a power line or a permit.
Texas utility regulators meet Thursday to decide whether the grid operator can blow past its own deadline for sorting hundreds of proposed data centers into the connection queue, after the governor told it to slow down and check them first.
The federal government's statistical agency for energy has cut its forecast of how fast Texas electricity demand will grow next year from 14 percent to 6 percent, and it named a single cause: Gov. Greg Abbott's Aug. 3 decision to pause new data center development in the state.
The Railroad Commission of Texas has partnered with Texas Tech University’s Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering to launch the RRC Field Inspector Training program, a new initiative aimed at strengthening the professional development of the commission’s oil and gas inspectors.
The Railroad Commission of Texas has partnered with the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service on a new fire-prevention training program for its oil and gas field inspectors, the agency announced Aug. 3.
The Railroad Commission of Texas meets Tuesday to take up ExxonMobil's application to bury carbon dioxide beneath Jefferson County — the first big test of a permitting power the state took over from the federal government eight months ago.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas meets Friday on five applications to build the first 765-kilovolt power lines in Texas history, and its chairman has already said the commission will decide none of them.
Texas oil and gas wells surface roughly 24 million barrels of salty water every day — more than a billion gallons — and the state's plan to turn that waste stream into a water supply now hinges on rules still being written and a jurisdictional boundary two agencies admit they cannot locate.
The commission that decides whose radioactive waste may be buried in West Texas meets Thursday with 20 import applications in front of it — from a Michigan reactor, two Minnesota plants, an Army munitions contractor and more than a dozen others.