Historically, grid operators have planned for large power plants tripping offline. But the rapid expansion of data centers processing the v...

The memory of the catastrophic winter storm in February 2021 still looms large in Texas. During that event, a historic freeze led to widesp...

In Texas, the computers kept running until just after midnight. Then the state’s power grid operator ordered them shut off, under an agreem...

As electricity prices hit $5,000 per megawatt hour on a hot day, it was no longer profitable to run the machines that compete to verify blo...

Texas’ power grid to expect a surge in the demand for electricity during the peak heat hours. Since the output is considerably lower than u...

ERCOT kept market prices for power too high for more than a day after widespread outages ended late on Feb. 17, Potomac Economics, the inde...

Bill Magness, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, becomes the second senior official to depart in the wake of one of the wors...

The crisis that has gripped the country's second-largest state by area was set to continue, however, with millions of people still without ...

Some 2.7 million households in Texas, the largest electricity consuming state in the United States, were without heat on Wednesday as freez...

The cold snap sweeping Texas reached the northern part of neighboring Mexico as well, where authorities said 4.7 million users lost power e...