Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, issued a Weather Watch from Jan. 24-27 due to forecasted below-freezing ...

Texas’s power grid appeared to hold firm during a recent winter storm roughly a year after a devastating freeze caused millions to lose power and cost hundreds of lives. "The Texas electric grid is ...

Texas runs its own power grid separate from the rest of the U.S. Winter 2021 blackouts were caused by severe weather and a lack of grid winterization. Texas laws now mandate weatherization of energy ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Public Utility Commission voted Thursday to make a substantial change to the state's electricity market in a controversial effort to get the whole system to be more reliable. The ...

Texas is bracing for the most significant winter storm of the season, which is expected to plunge temperatures below freezing for millions not accustomed to dangerous cold and put the Texas power grid ...

Texans no doubt remember the 2021 winter blackouts that killed hundreds across the state. Unusually cold weather was blamed, but some are now saying there may have been a manmade factor: market ...

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — The Supreme Court of Texas narrowly decided Friday that sovereign immunity, which largely shields government agencies from civil lawsuits, also protects the operator of the ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- On Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott and energy leaders said the grid is winter-ready and better prepared than ever before, yet customers told ABC13 that just two years after the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say connecting the Texas power grid to the rest of the country could have kept power on for millions during the 2021 ...

Integrating Texas’ self-contained electrical grid with the broader national grid could prevent mass power outages like those suffered in the Lone Star state during a 2021 cold snap, according to ...

Large electrical transmission lines cross through South Arlington, Texas, on Feb. 17, 2021. Rolling power outages disrupted service to customers following snow storms ...