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.
Texas Oil & Gas Association President Todd Staples on Sept. 21 issued a statement opposing calls for a ban on diesel exports, warning that such a move would cost domestic jobs and create fuel shortages at home, according to a news release from the association.
Texas lets a solar developer run a project for 20 years, and a wind developer for 10, before posting a dollar toward tearing it down.
Texas regulators cleared ExxonMobil on Sept. 15 to bury 53 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in the rock beneath a farming community southwest of Beaumont, over neighbors’ objections that the nearest house sits less than a mile from a well.
A coalition of data center developers wants the Texas grid operator to change the rule that decides who gets shut off first when electricity runs short, and it is arguing that the state's largest new power customers will build outside the grid entirely if the answer stays no.
Two Panhandle landowners told state regulators on Sept. 14 that a power line projected to cost as much as $1.08 billion should not be built across Texas farmland at all, because the electricity demand driving it sits across the state line in New Mexico.
The Public Utility Commission votes Sept. 18 on the rule that decides how data centers and other enormous new electricity users get onto the Texas grid.
Every day, Texas oil and gas wells bring roughly 26 million barrels of salt water to the surface — more than a billion gallons.
Texas asked the House Committee on Energy Resources to check the homework it set itself.
Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian voted against ExxonMobil’s Rose Carbon Capture and Storage permit, which the Railroad Commission of Texas approved on a 2-1 vote, the agency said in a Sept. 15 news release.