Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Texas’ independent grid is meeting a large portion of the state’s rising electricity ...

The state grid operator says the likelihood it will have to resort to rolling outages during peak August heat is less than 1% this summer — a big drop from the 12% risk for brownouts the Electric ...

President Donald Trump has said that rapid adoption of solar and wind power has made U.S. electricity unstable and expensive, justifying his bid to end most subsidies for renewable energy. But ...

Texas has always charted its own course, especially when it comes to energy. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages about 90% of the state's electric load, operates ...

Texas added nearly 10 gigawatts of solar and battery storage over the last eight months, according to new data presented Tuesday to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) Board of ...