And that is exactly how the Texas power grid is supposed to work, energy experts said. “ERCOT knows what plants fail, but not why,” said Bob King, an energy consultant in Austin who has worked ...

While ERCOT said it is prepared for the storm, there could be local outages in various counties. See maps of power outages ...

ERCOT is overseen by the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the state’s utility regulator, and the Texas legislature. A power grid is an interconnected system of power plants that produce ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Monday asked residents to reduce their electricity usage through at least Friday due to “tight” power grid conditions. A number of power plants are ...

After a statewide blackout in 2021 and a massive Austin outage in 2023, cold weather means energy anxiety for many in Central ...

Texas must build transmission largely to support oil and gas electrification and to host more power-intensive cryptocurrency ...

WHAT IS ERCOT: Texas’s complicated power grid explained, and what to expect this summer There have been no grid-wide outages since then, but ERCOT has periodically struggled during bouts of ...

Below-freezing temperatures will return to Texas as soon as Jan. 18, according to the National Weather Service. Grid ...

ERCOT officials reassure Texans the grid has enough power to meet demand during the winter storm. See the dashboard for grid status and conditions.

It has a storm tracker and an outage map, and you can see ... Coast or South Texas if any power generation plants were to break down in North or West Texas. At ERCOT’s headquarters in Austin ...

Power companies seeking low-interest loans to build gas-fired plants through a new ... power grid operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Gleeson spearheaded one of the program ...

Snow, sleet and freezing rain across Central and South Texas could bring down power lines, causing localized outages ...