Solar energy now makes up almost 20 percent of the grid’s capacity and 40 percent of new gigawatts in line for ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has issued a Weather Watch from Jan. 15-17 due to forecasted extreme cold weather across Southeast Texas, higher electrical demand, and the potential for ...

Texas is expected to set a new record for peak energy demand this year during what is predicted to be another of the hottest ...

The effort includes portable generators being set up at substations around San Antonio to bridge an overtaxed string of ...

The deregulated Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) proved unequal to distributing energy under extreme pressure, resulting in widespread blackouts and wholesale electricity prices going ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas command center in Taylor on Aug. 14, 2012. ERCOT, which operates the state power grid, was approved for a 40% budget increase on Thursday.

A new Texas law forces data centers to shoulder grid costs, disclose backup power, and prepare for emergency cutoffs. The ...

In it, lawmakers called for a biennial assessment of the ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) power grid. The assessment will show how reliable the power grid can be in extreme weather ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has declared an Energy Emergency Alert Level 1 and is urging consumers and businesses to limit their electricity use as much as possible on Sunday.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is the entity that operates the Texas power grid. It acts similar to traffic control — ERCOT doesn’t own power plants or power lines, ...

Those new regulations led the Texas Interconnected System to form the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, otherwise known as ERCOT in 1970. Five years later, ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says a large number of power plants are offline, but it could not provide details as to what may be causing the “very concerning” number of outages.