Tag: Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)
ERCOT CEO fired after deadly February blackouts
AUSTIN — The Electric Reliability Council of Texas fired its embattled CEO late Wednesday on the same day a congressional oversight panel launched an...
AG sues Texas utility over customers’ sky-high energy bills
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' attorney general said Monday he's suing electricity provider Griddy for passing along massive bills to its customers during last...
Protesters demand ERCOT take responsibility for disastrous failure
Lee Rood Austin American-Statesman
AUSTIN, Texas — About 50 people gathered Sunday afternoon outside ERCOT's campus in suburban Austin, demanding the nonprofit that controls about...
Top board leaders resign after deadly Texas power outages
By PAUL J. WEBER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Top board leaders of Texas' embattled power grid operator said Tuesday they...
EDITORIAL: Grid loss: Make power loss focus on solutions, not blame
Texas’ energy system, and the policy that drives it, failed spectacularly last week. Millions of people endured power outages in sub-freezing weather, some of...
Texas family suing ERCOT after son died from suspected hypothermia
By Reese Oxner, Texas Tribune
The family of an 11-year-old boy who died last week in Conroe during power outages while Texas endured a freezing...
ERCOT’s rolling blackouts draw first lawsuit; AG vows probe
DALLAS (AP) — The blackouts that left much of Texas cold and thirsty have spawned their first lawsuit.
The lawsuit filed Friday in a Nueces...
Texas crisis has governor facing big backer: energy industry
AUSTIN — As frozen Texas reels under one of the worst electricity outages in U.S. history, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has blamed grid operators...
Texas power grid neared total collapse Monday
The Texas power grid may have come closer to total failure as a winter storm blew through the state Monday than previously thought, news...
State, local energy leaders still unsure when power will be restored
The officials responsible for maintaining Texas’ electrical grid are still unsure when power will be fully restored to millions of people still in the...
