The Texas Reliability Entity’s Member Representatives Committee has unanimously approved the entity’s 2026 budget and business plan that is within 1% of previous projections, but at 6.4% increase over 2025.

The Texas Public Utility Commission’s staff has recommended the commission approve the construction of three 765-kV transmission lines, rather than 345-kV, into the petroleum-rich Permian Basin to improve the region’s reliability.

FERC heard details about recent reliability incidents caused by data centers tripping offline in Virginia and Texas and NERC's efforts to address them.

The troubled Texas Energy Fund has lost two more projects from its original list of applicants, raising questions about its ability to quickly add 10 GW of gas-fired dispatchable resources to the ERCOT grid.

ERCOT is poised to start testing real time co-optimization of energy and ancillary services in a few weeks and bring the change live this December, which will mark the biggest paradigm shift in Texas' wholesale markets in 15 years.

ERCOT’s plans to continue running a 55-year-old San Antonio gas plant scheduled for retirement are being endangered by "pretty significant findings" that increase costs and delay the schedule.

Texas’ loan program for gas generation has lost two more projects, marking the third and fourth companies to withdraw projects from the due diligence review process.

ERCOT, Oncor and the Texas PUC asked FERC to deny a petition from Puerto Rican company Pluvia to bring the territory under the commission’s jurisdiction.

ERCOT has unveiled a long-term load forecast for 2031 that adjusts projections provided by transmission providers and accounts for the uncertain nature of data centers and other large users.

PJM's Manu Asthana will join ERCOT's Pablo Vegas in opening the Texas grid operator’s second annual Innovation Summit by discussing how they are adapting to and managing the complexities of “rapidly changing grids.”