Coverage of the Texas electric grid and energy sector -- ERCOT reliability, generation capacity, rising power demand, rates, and the policy decisions shaping how the state keeps the lights on.
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.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Aug. 11 that EdgeConneX and Stream Data Centers will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data center development in Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Aug. 11 that Oracle will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data center development in Texas.
The Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously to take the first step toward a temporary moratorium on the development of new data centers in the city, Mayor Mattie Parker said in a statement issued after the vote.
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.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 10 that OpenAI will comply with the statewide standards and guidelines he established for data centers, according to a news release from the governor's office.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham announced Aug. 10 that the Texas General Land Office and the Railroad Commission of Texas have plugged 42 orphaned wells on state-owned submerged land, including 16 wells off High Island in Jefferson County, as part of the agencies' ongoing statewide Coastal Protection Project, according to a news release from the GLO.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 10 that Meta will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers in Texas, according to a news release from the governor's office.
State Representative Drew Darby asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Monday to hold a public meeting in Tom Green County before the agency acts on four air quality permit applications tied to a proposed data center campus near Dove Creek.