Texas regulators have approved two more system resiliency plans for state utilities with a focus on wildfire mitigation, following up on a requirement from the 2023 legislative session.
The Texas Public Utility Commission executed the first loan agreement under the state’s low-interest energy fund to the Kerrville Public Utility Board for a 122-MW natural gas plant.
Tenaska Power Services and the Texas Public Utility Commission have reached settlementin which the company will pay a $353,500 penalty and disgorge $28.24 million in excess revenue made in the ERCOT market
ERCOT has told Texas regulators that it has reached an agreement with LifeCycle Power that clears the way for 15 mobile generators to be relocated from Houston to San Antonio to provide additional capacity.
ERCOT stakeholders advanced a protocol change that provides longer-duration ancillary services and state-of-charge parameters, among several other voting items, during their last TAC meeting.
The Texas Public Utility Commission has begun accepting applications for up to $1 billion in grants under one of the four Texas Energy Fund programs it administers.
ERCOT's blossoming clean energy sector has been threatened by bills that would dampen its growth and future investment, but many of those laws appear to have fallen by the wayside in the Texas legislature's closing days.
Texas regulators have declined ERCOT’s request for an exemption from including certain loads without interconnection agreements in its forecasts until the grid operator fine tunes its methodology.
The Texas Public Utility Commission approved a plan that allows ERCOT to authorize the region’s first extra-high-voltagetransmission lines and meet the petroleum-rich Permian Basin’s rapidly growing power needs.
