Data centers make up more than 70% of the total. The surge has “outgrown the process that was established for reviewing these ...

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Texas’ grid authority, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), experienced a 270% surge in large load interconnection requests in 2025, according to an ERCOT Board of Director’s ...

Solar panels at the ENGIE Sun Valley Solar project in Hill County, Texas, on March 1, 2023. Solar project developers in Texas enjoy among the shortest wait time in the U.S. for permission to ...

The amount of ERCOT‘s large load interconnection requests ballooned to more than 230 gigawatts this year, a massive increase from the 63 gigawatts reported in December 2024. The agency, which operates ...

ERCOT has experienced more attention to and development of Private Use Networks (“PUN”) in the last months and years. This post summarizes what these “islands in the grid” are, their positive ...

The Texan grid operator, ERCOT, has become a focal point in the ongoing debate over US interconnection reform. Image: ERCOT. The Texan grid operator, ERCOT, has come under the spotlight for its ...

Texas' power grid is getting slammed with more big requests than ever, and most of them are coming from the booming world of artificial intelligence. ERCOT reported this week that large load ...