by R.A. Dyer | May 8, 2026 | News Roundup
ELECTRIC UTILITY AND ERCOT NEWS Texas Tribune: Gas power leapfrogs wind for first time in 10 years in Texas’ grid connection queue May 7 — For the last six months, the volume of gas generation in the Texas grid’s interconnection queue — the yearslong waiting list for...
by R.A. Dyer | Apr 28, 2026 | News Roundup
ELECTRIC UTILITY AND ERCOT NEWS E&E News: States look to curb sky-high salaries of utility CEOs April 23 — “There’s no way to reconcile [utility CEO compensation] with the quality of service that customers are receiving and the affordability of service that...
by R.A. Dyer | Apr 2, 2026 | ERCOT
Texas Power Companies Win Supreme Court Appeal in Winter Storm Uri Case. ________________________________________________ An effort to revive legal claims blaming negligence by power companies for billions of dollars in consumer losses during Winter Storm Uri has been...
by R.A. Dyer | Mar 25, 2026 | ERCOT
The tangled contractual dispute involves three distinct entities and their actions during the grid crisis occasioned by Winter Storm Uri in 2021 ________________________________________________ In a sign that fallout from Winter Storm Uri five years ago continues...
by R.A. Dyer | Mar 6, 2026 | News Roundup
ELECTRIC UTILITY AND ERCOT NEWS BIC Magazine: exas grid sees 233 GW in data center requests: How much is real? March 4 — Grid planners are drowning in connection requests. More than 233 GW of large-load interconnection applications now sit in ERCOT’s queue, with over...
