It’s boom time in the U.S. oil patch, but storm clouds are gathering.

Texas power demand is hitting record highs in 2025, and it's solar, wind, and battery storage that are keeping the lights on.

Texas’ power grid operator found that there is a roughly 1.81% chance of a grid emergency during periods of peak electric demand in December.

Governor Abbott of Texas announced a loan to support the construction of a 460 MW natural gas power facility in Fairfield, ...

Austin-based Base Power just raised $1 billion in Series C funding to accelerate its mission to modernize the Texas grid, one home battery at a time. Addition led the round, with support from existing ...

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Vistra plans to build two new natural gas power plants in the Permian Basin in response to the oil and gas industry’s growing thirst for electricity and other growth in West Texas, the Dallas-area ...

In the winter of 2021 Texas faced a storm like no other millions were left freezing in the dark as the power grid failed ...

Like its Gunsmoke namesake, Miss Kitty—a Plains, Texas behind-the-meter microgrid project—is tough, pragmatic, and distinctly Western. Faced with a hard ceiling on utility power and years-long waits ...

Houston power generation company NRG Energy is set to receive nearly $800 million in state loans, funded by taxpayer dollars, to build three new natural gas power plants in the Houston area. That ...

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Vantage Data Centers and Voltagrid are the developers of a data center and natural gas plant for the new Stargate site in ...