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.
David Thompson lives across the road from one of two data center campuses rising on San Antonio's far West Side, each with its own gas-fired power plant.
Gov. Greg Abbott's Sept. 21 order halting state permits for data centers reaches a group his first pause left alone: projects that plan to build their own power plants instead of solely drawing from the grid.
Three state administrative law judges recommended on Aug. 20 that Texas regulators refuse to let Oncor Electric Delivery Company and LCRA Transmission Services Corporation build the Bell County East-to-Big Hill 765,000-volt transmission line, and recommended the same result for the companion line from Big Hill to Sand Lake.
The Railroad Commission of Texas has a returning leader at its helm.
In order to speed up the development of grid infrastructure, the Legislature cut the clock on transmission permits from a year to 180 days.
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.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 18 a Texas Energy Fund grant of more than $795,000 to strengthen electric reliability for Deaf Smith Electric Cooperative members in Northwest Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 18 that Bitdeer, CyrusOne, Ionic Digital and HIF will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers in Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 18 that Riot Platforms and Comanche Circle Data Center will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers operating in Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 18 that Power House Data Centers, CoreWeave and Emergent Data Centers will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers in Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 18 that the Data Center Coalition, the data center sector’s membership coalition, will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers in Texas.
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.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 14 that Amazon, Lancium and Cipher Digital will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers operating in Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 14 that Stack Infrastructure, Anthropic and Nightpeak Energy will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers operating in Texas.