A new report from the Energy Reliability Council of Texas shows the possibility that the state's power grid will not keep up with growth in the state.

Claire Hao is a reporter at the Houston Chronicle covering the Texas power grid, the clean energy transition and other electricity-related topics. Claire previously spent a year on the climate ...

an energy fellow at the University of Houston. ERCOT's rate of unplanned power plant outages is the highest in the nation. Why Is Texas the Only State With Its Own Power Grid? Texas wasn't the ...

HOUSTON — Anytime the Texas power grid is the subject of a conservation advisory, or when the weather turns extreme in the Lone Star State, it's a good time to check on supply and demand.

Claire Hao is a reporter at the Houston Chronicle covering the Texas power grid, the clean energy transition and other electricity-related topics. Claire previously spent a year on the climate ...

Energy companies starting resiliency initiatives are all the rage in Texas, apparently. Six months after CenterPoint Energy launched its project to improve its work in the greater Houston area ...

a disturbance moving in Monday to Tuesday could bring light snow to North Texas, hard freeze conditions in Houston, and a potential wintry mix as far down south as the Corpus Christi area. Will the ...

HOUSTON — CenterPoint ... to improve grid performance and emergency response capabilities. Along with the settlement, CenterPoint proposed relocating 15 emergency power generation units to ...

The majority of power outages on Wednesday were reported near the Molina neighborhood, which had 304 outages as of 8 a.m., according to the AEP Texas outage map. Those outages were expected to be ...

Utilities and power grid operators walk a fine line when it comes to providing reliable and resilient power while also ...

A cold blast gripping the U.S. South threatens to bring record-breaking snowfall to New Orleans and Houston and a deep ... and pipelines to freeze. The Texas grid has a weather watch in place ...