August-like weather that one weatherman called “categorically insane” will settle over Texas this weekend, leading to potential record demand for ERCOT.

ERCOT’s board sides with staff over a rule change that gives the ISO the authority to review, coordinate and approve or deny all planned generation outages.

A Texas committee has completed the first map of the state’s critical infrastructure for use during disasters and emergency preparedness and response.

FERC and NERC continue to gather information from utilities, generators and grid operators on maintaining electric reliability during severe cold weather.

The RE+ Texas conference drew hundreds of renewable energy experts to the state that leads in wind production and may soon lead in solar energy too.

The Gulf Coast Power Association drew more than 400 attendees to its first in-person Spring Conference, and 35th overall, since 2019.

Rising natural gas prices and extreme weather pushed wholesale electricity prices higher in 2021, FERC said in its annual State of the Markets report.

ERCOT stakeholders declined to consider staff’s appeal of a tabled rule change that would create a process allowing staff to schedule planned outages.

FERC staffers praised ERCOT operators for preventing a worse catastrophe during last year’s devastating winter storm during a Talk with Texas RE webinar.

Some 67 GW of energy storage sitting in ERCOT’s interconnection queue poses a problem regulators and developers are working to address.