Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Morgan Johnson to the Public Utility Commission, adding a fourth member to the five-person panel.

ERCOT has told its market participants that the Texas attorney general's office has served the grid operator with a civil investigation demand in connection with an ongoing investigation.

The Gulf Coast Power Association celebrated its 40th anniversary — and the Texas Public Utility Commission’s 50th — during its annual fall conference.

Texas regulators have approved the first transmission project in the Permian Basin Reliability Plan, along with several other projects.

The Texas PUC finalized a loan agreement with NRG Energy through the Texas Energy Fund’s in-ERCOT program for a 721-MW natural gas-fired plant in Houston’s dense petrochemical region.

Texas regulators proposed new rules on large load forecasting criteria and net metering following the state’s recent biennial legislative session and opened them up to public comment.

Texas regulators have approved Entergy Texas’ request to build two natural gas-powered units in MISO’s portion of the state, but they have limited the construction costs eligible for recovery to a combined $2.4 billion.

ERCOT stakeholders at the Infocast Texas Clean Energy Summit discussed tariff trade wars, supply chain issues, data centers and the latest biennial legislative session in Texas that concluded with Senate Bill 6.

ERCOT stakeholders, while raising concerns over the grid operator’s use of conservative operations, have endorsed staff’s recommendations for computing minimum ancillary service quantities for 2026.

Texas regulators have selected the first four projects eligible for more than $240 million in grants outside the ERCOT region as part of the state’s Texas Energy Fund.