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.

By Madeline de Figueiredo for The Daily Yonder. Broadcast version by Freda Ross for Texas News Service for the Public News Service/Daily Yonder Collaboration Rural landowners and conservation ...

The electricity grid that covers most of Texas was holding up as of Sunday during the latest winter storm, although localized ...

This past weekend's winter weather brought Central Texas a few days of below-freezing temperatures and unlike the deadly ...

Austin Energy, the utility provider for Austin, has cancelled or delayed 29 projects to upgrade or repair transmission lines since September due to a lack of local power generation available to ...

The electricity grid that covers most of Texas was holding up as of Sunday during the latest winter storm, although localized ...

As bitter cold temperatures gripped the Houston region Monday morning, some power outages were being reported in the city and suburbs.

Power has been restored to thousands of homes with more waiting as San Antonio warms up a bit amid the winter storm. The number of outages has now dropped down to just above 2,700 according the CPS ...

Power outages in Texas started spiking Saturday as a winter storm packing ice, snow, sleet and bitter cold swept through the state. After peaking above 150,000 on Sunday, the number of outages has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After peaking at more than 150,000, power outages in Texas have trended downward since Sunday. The outages are mostly affecting ...

Ahead of winter weather, Gov. Greg Abbott assured residents that the electrical grid, which failed on a massive scale in 2021, is ready. Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 134 counties on ...

Changes to ERCOT, power supply facilities in Texas after catastrophic 2021 winter storm should help weather January storm.