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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) manages the flow of electric power on the Texas Interconnection that supplies power to 26 million Texas customers – representing 90 percent of the state's electric load. [3] ERCOT is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States [4] and one of nine ISOs in North America. [5]
This Election Day, Texas voters will decide whether or not to open up billions of dollars to support natural gas power plants. Proponents of the measure tout it as a way to improve the state’s ...
The known petroleum deposits of Texas are about 8 billion barrels (1.3 × 10 9 m 3), which makes up approximately one-third of the known U.S. supply. Texas has 4.6 billion barrels (730,000,000 m 3) of proven crude oil reserves. [15] As wells are depleted in the eastern portions of the state, drilling in state has moved westward. [16]
Opinion: AI searches require 10 times the energy of Google searches. Without more natural gas permits, U.S. power grid cannot support AI.
Nationwide data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration [7] shows that Texas's electric prices did rise above the national average immediately after deregulation from 2003 to 2009, but from 2010 to 2015, prices dropped significantly below the national average price, with a total cost of $0.0863 per kWh in Texas in 2015 vs. $0.1042 ...
(The Center Square) – Job growth in the Texas oil and natural gas industry continues to remain strong, contributing to Texas again leading the U.S. in job growth last month. In October, the ...
The Texas LNG project is a multi-decade liquid natural gas shipping terminal project near Brownsville, Texas. It has been in the planning stages since the early 2010s and, as of 2019, gained regulatory authority approval for construction and operation in the 2020s, with initial export shipments as early as 2025.
“Gas explosions are trending upward generally across the country. I think it’s an increasing problem and more and more people are being injured and killed in gas explosions,” Hageman said.