The maligned Texas power grid kept most of the lights on during this week’s winter storm despite near-record demand, with state officials praising changes made since last February’s brutal storm for the grid’s stability. The Texas grid has […]
TOKYO — Japan will require power utilities to open up their grids to energy storage systems operated by other companies, aiming to promote a technology that will be key to broader adoption of renewable energy. […]
Texas will soon enter its first winter after last February’s statewide blackouts caused by a winter storm. The state has undergone significant reforms of its power grid, natural gas supply chain, and electricity market in […]
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is asking Texans to reduce electric use as much as possible today through Friday, June 18. A significant number of forced generation outages combined with potential record electric […]
When blackouts hit Houston last February, Rob and Robin Dickehuth’s home became a port in the storm for neighbors, thanks to a $35,000 solar and battery system that kept windows aglow and devices fully charged. […]
Electricity outages in Texas could occur again this summer — just a few months after the devastating winter storm that left millions of Texans without power for days — if the state experiences a severe […]
The second day of marathon hearings on Texas’s unprecedented energy crisis raised concerns about the liquidity of the state’s power market, and who will ultimately pay for the disaster as some companies face bankruptcy. Several […]
Texas’s grid operator has already seen some retail electricity providers default as bills for last week’s grid emergency come due, officials said Wednesday. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, known as Ercot, is working to […]
With the ongoing fall out of power outages across Texas this week, it has brought into sharp focus the reliance we have on energy (and the infrastructure that delivers it to our homes) to keep […]
At least 47 people were dead, hundreds of thousands of homes were still without power, half of the state was under a boil water order, racialized communities were bearing the brunt, and the electricity system […]
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