The Freeze Has Thawed. The Grid Survived. What Was Different This Time?
Governor Greg Abbott said ERCOT performed “flawlessly." But there were several factors at play.
Governor Greg Abbott said ERCOT performed “flawlessly." But there were several factors at play.
Paying Bitcoin companies to turn off their energy-gobbling computers is apparently our best plan to keep the power on for the rest of us.
Thank goodness the state GOP's war on renewables has, so far, failed.
Texans have never been afraid of summer temperatures. This year’s record-breaking heat wave should make us think twice.
It took him a while to get here, but now he’s out to transform our state with new technologies—if our leaders’ hostility toward renewable energy (and his Twitter misadventures) don’t get in the way.
Let’s crunch the numbers on what it would cost to avoid another “oakpocalypse.”
The state avoided a disaster during the recent Arctic blast, but a sizable number of electricity generators still struggled in the cold.
Electric grid resiliency and security are keys to a bright energy future.
The state’s big investor-owned utilities, aptly nicknamed IOUs, are in big trouble—and Wall Street knows it. Historically, the IOUs have been able to block damaging legislation calling for the deregulation of electricity and immediate rate cuts, but the once-friendly Public Utility Commission has turned against them. In a sweeping and