Here’s what to know about the head of one of Texas’ most scrutinized entities: Who is Pablo Vegas? Prior to leading ERCOT, Vegas spent nearly two decades working at natural gas and electric ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ (ERCOT) website shows a real-time grid and market conditions. ERCOT manages the state’s power grid, ensuring electricity flows reliably to millions ...

The ERCOT Board of Directors convene for a meeting at the organization's headquarters in Austin on Dec. 3, 2024. (Noah Devereaux For The Texas Tribune, Noah Devereaux For The Texas Tribune ...

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 ...

ERCOT is already keeping the youngest of the three old units running past retirement but says borrowing a fleet of 15 generators from CenterPoint Energy would be less expensive and better at ...

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 ...

CenterPoint won’t earn any revenue from the arrangement. But it will still cost ERCOT approximately $54 million to use those diesel generators in the San Antonio region to prevent broader grid ...

ERCOT has experienced more attention to and development of Private Use Networks (“PUN”) in the last months and years. This post summarizes what these “islands in the grid” are, their ...

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 ...

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 ...