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.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas will vote Sept. 11 on a rule that would make a data center put up $50,000 for every megawatt it wants from the grid before anyone studies whether the grid can carry it.
The chairman of the agency that regulates Texas utilities wants two of the state's biggest proposed power lines sent back to the judges who just recommended rejecting them — a step that would keep the projects alive but push a decision months further out for landowners across 23 counties.
The Texas House Committee on Energy Resources will gavel in at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 14 in Capitol Extension room E2.026 to take public and invited testimony on three interim charges that between them cover almost everything the oil patch puts back underground: carbon dioxide, produced water and the disposal wells blamed for West Texas earthquakes.
The Texas House Committee on Energy Resources will gavel in at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 15 in Capitol Extension room E2.026 for the second of two consecutive interim hearings, opening with an oversight review of the Railroad Commission of Texas that the committee's chairman has already told one commissioner he expects him to answer for on the record.
A rancher who is representing himself in one of the biggest transmission cases in Texas history told state utility regulators on Sept. 5 that if they approve two enormous power lines over their own judges' recommendation, landowners will take them to court.
The Railroad Commission of Texas on Sept. 3 released preliminary oil and natural gas production statistics for June 2026, reporting statewide crude oil output of 119,505,477 barrels and natural gas production of 1,049,291,028 thousand cubic feet.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas is set to vote Sept. 11 on the permanent rule for connecting the state's largest new electricity users to the grid.
By Charles Blain Don’t mess with Texas, a phrase as widely known as the state’s identity itself also captures a useful rule for policymakers: Don’t mess with what works.
Oncor and the Lower Colorado River Authority's transmission arm filed an 81-page rebuttal Sept. 2 asking Texas utility regulators to overrule two administrative judges who recommended denying a pair of 765,000-volt power lines across Central and West Texas, arguing the judges leaned on "lay witness testimony" over the state grid operator's engineering and that denying the lines would leave Far West Texas facing forced outages of more than 2,000 megawatts.