As companies look to build projects that consume more power than cities, the state’s grid manager is trying to plan how to ...

After several years of warnings and alerts, it's been a pleasantly quiet summer for the Texas power grid. There were no pleas from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas for residents to reduce ...

Battery Power - A start-up company could give homeowners a new way to keep the lights on when the electric grid has power problems. Science reporter Eric Henrikson gives us an inside look at the ...

The Sandy Creek Energy Station is America's newest coal-fired power plant, and it's expected to remain offline until 2027. The power plant near Waco, Texas, which began delivering power to the grid in ...

As temperatures crept above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8C) on a July day, air-conditioners across Texas churned overtime and ...

The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved Entergy Texas’ proposal to build two natural gas power plants as part of the company’s plan to increase its dispatchable generation portfolio. Together, ...

The weekend got off to a rocky start in parts of southeastern Texas as a line of severe thunderstorms swept through early ...