A South Central Texas utility company announced a first-in-Texas partnership with Elon Musk's Tesla through the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

The same is true in Waco and Hillsboro, where a planned data center is calling for 828 megawatts of power per year. That eclipses the amount the cities used together in 2023. It’s the same story in cities in East Texas and elsewhere, King said during a recent Senate committee hearing.

All Texans connected to the state grid will now pay for the generators rather than just CenterPoint customers.

Four years ago, after all electricity sources struggled to keep Texans’ lights on during Winter Storm Uri, the state’s top Republican leaders singled out solar and wind energy for scorn as they worked to goose natural gas-powered generation.

An enduring spell of low wind speeds across Texas has forced the state's power firms to increase generation from fossil fuels to record highs so far in 2025, potentially leading power firms to shorten or delay planned maintenance breaks this spring.

Proponents claim a state Bitcoin reserve will serve as hedge against inflation in the world's eighth-largest economy.

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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ board has agreed to finalize the proposal by Houston-based CenterPoint Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNP) to send its controversial mobile generators to San Antonio.

Texas's power grid faces immense pressure from the rapid expansion of AI data centers, with demand projected to increase so significantly that the equivalent of 30 nuclear power plants would be needed by 2030.

Solar energy might be clean, cheap and slow the heating of the planet. But that’s not what the solar industry wants lawmakers to focus on. Instead, solar leaders are at the Texas

"Nowhere in the country, other than Texas, is anyone willing to step up and build the power plants we need," said Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp.

ERCOT was working with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to address the issue, such as by securing an agreement for more discretionary enforcement. “This is a fairly limited use case ...