The Texas General Land Office is inviting energy companies to propose geothermal projects, small modular nuclear reactors and natural gas plants on state-owned land, Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced in a Sept. 15 news release.
Texas utility regulators clear their calendar Sept. 17 for a single case: whether a 180-megawatt data center may sit behind the meter at a West Texas solar farm and have its power use netted against what the panels produce.
About 1,200 feet from Heather Peysen's house on Three Way Road in Archer County, a company wants to build a data center that would pull 1,000 megawatts off the Texas grid — more than one percent of the record demand the entire state hit this summer.
The organization that runs the power grid for most of Texas told state regulators on Sept. 11 that it will send a survey of roughly 130 questions this week to 461 data center projects waiting to plug in, asking who owns them, where their water and cooling will come from, whether they can supply any of their own electricity, and what financial help they have sought from the communities around them.
The Railroad Commission of Texas decides Sept. 15 whether ExxonMobil may inject 53 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the ground beneath a farming community southwest of Beaumont.
The board that leases Texas school lands for oil and gas meets Sept. 15 to consider giving companies 90 days to correct royalty payments they trimmed when West Texas gas prices fell below zero.
The Texas Senate Committee on Natural Resources will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 21 in Capitol Extension room E1.012 to take invited and public testimony on who pays to tear down wind and solar farms when they stop producing, and on three 2025 laws written to blunt a wave of oilfield theft.
The agency that runs the electric grid for most of Texas began sending formal demands for documents on Sept. 9 to the companies behind the giant power users it has tentatively placed at the front of the connection line, and warned that any one of them that fails to answer completely within 10 business days will be dropped from that line.
The Railroad Commission of Texas issued 695 original drilling permits in August 2026, with the Midland district accounting for nearly half of all permits to drill new oil and gas holes, the agency reported in a Sept. 9 news release.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has opened the application period for a program offering more than $100 million to permanently plug and abandon marginal conventional oil and gas wells across the state.