ERCOT
Nation’s School Solar Could Power All of Austin, but Texas Campuses Lag
A new national census finds U.S. K-12 schools now generate enough solar power to run every household in Austin, yet Texas's own campuses...
Gillespie County’s Injunction Against Ampyr’s 1,100-Acre Marshall Springs Battery Project Heads to Court
As Ampyr Energy advances a roughly 1,100-acre solar farm and battery-storage complex outside Fredericksburg, Gillespie County and hundreds of Hill Country residents are...
Texas Cedes Battery Storage Crown to Arizona as Record 20.2 GWh Quarter Redraws the Land Map
Texas added 3.8 gigawatt-hours of battery storage in the second quarter and ceded the national lead to Arizona, even as a shrinking ERCOT...
Texas Data Center Boom Runs Into ERCOT Freeze as CBRE Reports Record 1.4% National Vacancy
CBRE's North America Data Center Trends webinar for the first half of 2026 described record-low vacancy and a construction pipeline unlike any other,...
Texas Clears 424 Miles of Transmission Across Private Ranchland, Setting Up a Land-Rights Reckoning
The Public Utility Commission of Texas cleared Oncor to build the state's first 765-kilovolt transmission lines across roughly 424 miles of largely private...
Amazon Advances $10B, 13-Building Wharton County Data Center as Texas Grid Audit Clouds Power and Timeline
Amazon disclosed fresh details on its 13-building, $10 billion Wharton County data center at a Boling community open house, even as the amount...
Austin Clinches 20-Year, $200MM Whirlwind Wind Contract as Texas Power Demand Surges
The Austin City Council approved a 20-year power purchase agreement extension worth up to $200 million with Whirlwind Energy, locking in 60 megawatts...
Texas’s 12 Largest Planned Gas Plants Are All Built for Data Centers as Pipeline Tops 120 GW
A Global Energy Monitor analysis released in late August found that the 12 largest gas-fired power projects planned across Texas are all designed...
Texas Freezes 474 GW Data Center Queue Amid $31.6 Trillion Global Buildout
Gov. Greg Abbott's order for a statewide audit of data center projects has stalled roughly 474 gigawatts of interconnection requests inside the ERCOT...
Comstock’s $2.1B in Deals Advances 5.2GW East Texas Power Hub as Jones Exits Frisco Office Tower
The Frisco natural gas producer's letter of intent with Azerbaijan's state oil company and a $450 million drilling venture with majority shareholder Jerry...
PowerHouse, Big Watt Advance Off-Grid 665-Acre Project Mustang Data Center Toward September Vote in Taylor
Project Mustang, a 665-acre data center campus powered by its own 477-megawatt natural gas plant instead of the ERCOT grid, is advancing through...
Texas Overtakes Virginia as World’s Largest Data Center Market, JLL Reports
Texas has vaulted past Virginia to become the largest data center market on the planet, driven by a construction pipeline concentrated in the...
