The three commissioners who run the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will meet Aug. 26 with the air permit for a proposed ammonia plant at Ingleside as the first item on a 63-item agenda.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas called a special meeting Aug. 21 for the sole purpose of taking up two of the giant power lines proposed to carry electricity out of the Permian Basin, moved it into a hotel ballroom to hold the crowd, heard argument from the parties, and then approved nothing, denied nothing and paused nothing.
The Railroad Commission of Texas has begun sending its oil and gas inspectors through specialized electrical safety instruction, a step the agency says will sharpen their ability to identify and reduce wildfire hazards at well sites across the state.
The Railroad Commission of Texas assessed $3,129,400 in enforcement fines against oil and gas operators and other businesses during the commissioners' open meeting Tuesday, the agency said in an Aug. 21 news release.
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.
The Public Utility Commission has called a special meeting for Friday in a University of Texas hotel ballroom rather than its own hearing room, and put nothing on the agenda but two Oncor applications for what would be among the first 765-kilovolt transmission lines in Texas.
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.
Texas utility regulators meet Thursday to decide whether the grid operator can blow past its own deadline for sorting hundreds of proposed data centers into the connection queue, after the governor told it to slow down and check them first.
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.