Texas Is Warned of Blackout Risk as Sun Sets This Summer May 16, 2024 By Naureen S. Malik The risk of power failures this summer remains elevated for many parts of North America amid soaring demand and generator...
Texas Got Early Warnings About Costly Grid Policy, Records Show February 7, 2024 By Rachel Adams-Heard and Naureen S. Malik Texas grid officials received repeated warnings last summer that their efforts to shore up the state’s increasingly strained electric grid...
Texas Power Grid Operator Issues Conservation Request as Winter Storm Engulfs State January 16, 2024 By Alejandro Serrano, Emily Foxhall and Neelam Bohra, The Texas Tribune The Texas power grid operator asked residents to conserve power a second time this week as a blast of cold...
Texas Sees Rapid Growth in Battery Storage to Support Power Grid September 13, 2023 By Keaton Peters and Emily Foxhall On Wednesday night, minutes before the state’s grid operator went into emergency mode to make sure it would have enough...
Texas Power Grid Faces New Challenges Amid Summer Heat and High Demand September 11, 2023 By Juan A. Lozano HOUSTON (AP) – Texas’ power grid has been under tremendous stress during this summer’s sweltering heat, with the state setting...
Deadly Heat Wave Sweeps Central US, Threatening Power Grid and Straining Resources August 25, 2023 By Juan Lozano and Acacia Coronado AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Deadly heat that has gripped Texas for much of the summer has spread into other parts...
Extreme Heat in Texas Raises Concerns of Power Grid Overload June 28, 2023 By Paul J. Weber AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – On another 100-degree day in Texas, Sean Whitaker lingered outside a Dallas cafe after polishing off...
Texas Gas Market Gets New Calls for Transparency Two Years After Winter Storm Uri March 10, 2023 By Rachel Adams-Heard Texas’s notoriously opaque natural gas market is getting fresh calls for transparency and oversight, two years after the 2021 winter...
Texas Utility Regulators Propose Changes to Electricity Market March 1, 2023 By Emily Foxhall and Alex Ford The winter storm that hit Texas in February 2021 strained the state’s electricity grid so much that power had to...
Texas’ ERCOT Given Federal Permission to Exceed Air Quality Limits December 27, 2022 By Emily Foxhall The U.S. Department of Energy has cleared the way for Texas power plants to pollute more than is usually allowed,...