Texas’ main grid operator on Tuesday approved a $54 million plan to replace two aging natural gas-powered plants near San Antonio with the massive mobile generators that CenterPoint Energy came ...

On Wednesday, according to live grid conditions, ERCOT had about 10,000 megawatts of pad in case a generator suddenly went offline. One megawatt can power about 250 homes. Vegas said ERCOT ...

ERCOT said that the loss of those units, which sit near a problem area in the state’s transmission infrastructure, would increase the risks of power outages across the grid. Transmission ...

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When the Electric Reliability of Council first told CPS the grid still needed the power from the retiring units at Braunig Power Station, CPS warned ERCOT it would be costly. In December ...

But that was the most dire of the scenarios that ERCOT outlined. Others show that supply would be tight but stay just ahead of demand. And some experts cautioned that the assumptions ERCOT used ...

But only a week before, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, ERCOT, issued a sobering report that said the state’s demand for power could outpace supply by summer 2026. CEO Pablo Vegas ...

In a Monday post on X, formerly Twitter, the operator announced it had issued a weather watch between February 19 and 21 "due to forecasted extreme cold weather across the ERCOT region ...

In both cases, ERCOT’s live data dashboards showed power to spare in reserve as Texans cranked up heaters to fight off what’s likely to be the last major cold snap of the season.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has issued a weather watch, which begins Feb. 19 and ends Feb. 21, due to cold weather across the region, the agency said in a ...

AUSTIN, Texas — With freezing temperatures in the forecast across the state, ERCOT – the Electric Reliability Council of Texas – has issued a Weather Watch for later this week. The Weather ...