Coverage of what Texas growth runs on -- the ERCOT grid and new generation, transmission lines, data centers and the demand they bring, and the water supply, reservoirs and groundwater a growing state depends on.
Corpus Christi voters on Nov. 3 approved a charter amendment that ends the city's practice of exempting its biggest industrial water users from drought surcharges, according to the Nueces County elections office's unofficial count.
Treated oilfield wastewater can be spread across Texas farmland under rules the state’s environmental regulators adopted Nov. 4 — and on the question a neighbor is most likely to ask, how close it may come to a drinking water well, the rule gives two answers that do not match.
The Texas Oil & Gas Association warned that a State Office of Administrative Hearings recommendation to set aside additional transmission infrastructure in West Texas would put the reliability of the state's electric grid at risk, according to an Aug. 24 statement from TXOGA President Todd Staples.
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.
Texas Oil & Gas Association President Todd Staples told a Texas House committee that West Texas needs new electric generation and transmission capacity now, warning that delaying the buildout will only raise its eventual cost.
The Texas Water Development Board meets Aug. 24 to vote on a $7 million grant to the Nueces River Authority for engineering work on a seawater desalination plant near Port Aransas.
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.
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.
A developer building three gigawatt-scale AI data centers in West Texas told state lawmakers Aug. 18 that two of the sites cannot be reached by air.