AUSTIN, TX - JUNE 08: State Rep. Chris Paddie (L) and State Senator Kelly Hancock (R) watch as Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs Senate Bills 2 and 3 during a press conference at the Capitol on June 8, ...

Texas lawmakers ignored electric power industry executives and critics like me who, two years ago, blasted their taxpayer-funded loan program to build more natural gas power plants. Today, the Texas ...

August 2023 marked a turning point for Texas’s power grid. As demand soared to 85.5 gigawatts—dangerously close to catastrophic failure—millions of Texans braced for rolling blackouts. Nearly two ...

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This summer’s record-breaking heat around the country has exposed a major vulnerability in the U.S. economy: our outdated electricity grid. From factory slowdowns to data center outages, the cost of ...

Texas is four years removed from the February 2021 freeze and power grid failure that crippled the entire state. Homes and businesses throughout the state, including the normally tepid Rio Grande ...

Sheep graze on a solar farm owned by SB Energy on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Buckholts, Texas. Texas’ diverse mix of energy resources continues to deliver results, and the entire country should take ...

When you flip a switch and the lights come on, you probably don't give it much thought. Yet underneath that simple act lies an increasingly fragile network of transformers, transmission lines, and ...

Texas and oil have been an inexorable combination for well over a century. The oil and gas industry is the state’s largest economic engine, generating billions of dollars and supporting hundreds of ...