by R.A. Dyer | Aug 1, 2025 | Legislature
SB 6 seeks to simultaneously facilitate these large load interconnections and insulate Texas ratepayers from related transmission costs and reliability concerns. ________________________________________________ Last spring, the 89th Texas Legislature enacted Senate...
by R.A. Dyer | Jul 23, 2025 | News Roundup
PV Magazine: Solar, wind and storage reliably power Texas grid during unexpected coal shutdown July 22 — Solar and wind generated 40.2% of the ERCOT grid’s electricity this year through June. When coal plants shut down for unexpected maintenance, solar and wind...
by R.A. Dyer | Jun 18, 2025 | News Roundup
Utility Dive: ‘Shoulder season’ reliability a growing concern in ERCOT, other ISOs: Aurora Energy Research Jube 17 — Batteries, gas peaker plants and data centers will provide critical system flexibility by 2030 as load growth, aging infrastructure and weather...
by R.A. Dyer | May 27, 2025 | News Roundup
Texas Standard: After outages last year, CenterPoint promises a better tracker May 26 —Hurricane season starts June 1, and CenterPoint Energy says it’s ready with a new and improved outage tracker. But after failures during Hurricane Beryl and last year’s derecho, is...
by R.A. Dyer | Apr 24, 2025 | Electricity, Legislature
CenterPoint Vice President Jason Ryan has outlined a plan under which its customers would be made whole for previous charges relating to the utility’s leases of mobile generation units that went unused during hurricane recovery efforts....
