The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is changing the way it evaluates its transmission capacity to connect data centers, cryptocurrency miners and other "large loads" to the grid.

First reported by Inside Climate News, Jeff Billo, ERCOT’s vice president of interconnection and grid analysis, said that ...

The state grid operator is making a first attempt at a planning process in which multiple requests will be considered simultaneously.

DALLAS — Updated at 7:59 p.m. March 4 with news about terminated CEO Bill Magness not accepting severance pay. Bill Magness has 60 days left as CEO of The Electric Reliability Council of Texas after ...

Texas has so many massive AI-related data centers in development that its grid operator is now considering reevaluating some projects that were ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, said it could have to improve the state’s power grid and change its operating procedures, after it saw a massive spike in large ...

The order is aimed at helping the state power grid endure the ongoing freeze.