The Texas PUC issued a set of orders intended to protect Texas electricity customers and prevent possible disconnections for non-payment.

Columnist Steve Huntoon explains his thoughts on what is and what is not to blame for the rolling blackouts in ERCOT last week.

With the ERCOT system back to normal operations, Texas politicians and regulators are taking initial steps to ensure a similar crisis doesn’t happen again.

FERC's Richard Glick said he may seek new reliability standards to ensure better preparation for severe winter conditions following prolonged outages.

ERCOT said reserves had been restored and declared a return to normal conditions, ending an emergency that had left more than 4 million without power.

ERCOT said that enough generation had returned to service to stop the rotating outages that began Feb. 15.

ERCOT leadership made it clear that it is fully committed to restoring power to the millions of Texans spending their fourth night shivering in the dark.

The inability of Midwestern grid operators to recover quickly from extreme winter weather drew customer anger, along with scrutiny from regulators.

SPP joined ERCOT in initiating rolling blackouts Monday as the entire Midwest experiences an unprecedented winter storm.

ERCOT staff’s work on summer reserve margins has drawn the attention of NERC executives, CEO Bill Magness told the Board of Directors.