The PUCT is asking legislators to help provide clarity on whether transmission and distribution utilities can own and operate energy storage devices.

A Rice University study suggests Texas renewable power production could become more reliable by combining different resources and locations.

CPS Energy is now in the process of mothballing its J.T. Deely coal-fired plant, while NRG Energy intends to retire two gas units at its SR Bertron plant.

ERCOT is preparing to take on the Texas heat again in 2019 with reserve margins that have shrunk even further than last summer's.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) approved a certificate of convenience and necessity for CenterPoint’s proposed 345-kV project near Houston.

Both SPP and ERCOT set new records for wind generation, with SPP producing a new wind peak of 16.4 GW after ERCOT topped out at 19.2 GW.

NERC offered an upbeat report on the long-term health of the nation’s grid, celebrating results from its interconnection-wide frequency response studies.

ERCOT is repeating many of the preparations it took before last summer as it looks ahead to even tighter reserve margins in 2019.

Texas PUC Chair DeAnn Walker urged ERCOT to gain a “better sense” of the distributed resources and self-generation that could be affecting its system.

ERCOT said Tuesday that it confronts a historically low 8.1% planning reserve margin next summer in the face of continued high electricity demand from oil and gas producers in West Texas and the cancellation of several generation projects.