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By Tom Kleckner AUSTIN, Texas — The Public Utility Commission of Texas agreed Friday that Southwestern Public Service does not have the exclusive right to build transmission facilities in its service territory, signaling a final order will be considered at its next meeting. The PUC’s decision was not the answer...
A Central Texas heat wave is leading to surging demand for electricity, helping ERCOT continue its streak of breaking demand records. The Texas grid operator’s latest record came Friday when it reported 69,525 MW of demand between 4 and 5 p.m., the fifth time in July it exceeded last year’s...
By Peter Key and Tom Kleckner American Electric Power, once the biggest coal-burning utility in the U.S., now plans the nation’s largest wind farm, a 2,000-MW project in the western Oklahoma Panhandle that would be connected to subsidiaries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas by a 350-mile EHV transmission line.
The City of Garland, Texas, last week told ERCOT it wants to mothball a 454-MW power plant for all but the summer. | Tom Harpool Collection, University of North Texas Special Collections The city’s municipal utility, Garland Power & Light, said it wants to run Gibbons Creek Generating Station only...
By Tom Kleckner DENVER — As it comes to grips with the migration of 430 MW of West Texas load to ERCOT, SPP is confronting the possibility that as much as 1,300 MW of additional load could leave its system. SPP members are encouraging the RTO to explore the reasons...
By Tom Kleckner and Rich Heidorn Jr. Warren Buffett’s bid for Oncor won an immediate endorsement from the head of the Texas Public Utility Commission’s staff Friday, suggesting the Oracle of Omaha may succeed where two other suitors for the state’s largest transmission and distribution utility failed. But first, Buffett may...
By Tom Kleckner Warren Buffett is stepping in where two other suitors have failed and will soon make a deal for Oncor, Texas’ largest transmission and distribution utility, according to The Wall Street Journal. Citing sources “familiar with the matter,” the Journal reported that an announcement by Berkshire Hathaway Energy...
Sweltering temperatures led to three new ERCOT demand records in quick succession during June. The ISO has set eight highs for monthly demand during the last 12 months. The Texas grid operator recorded consecutive peaks of 66.7 GW, 67.5 GW and 67.7 GW during the afternoon of June 23. The...
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