- Texas monitor says state power-grid operator overcharged $16 billion in electricity bills during power outages https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-monitor-says-power-grid-overcharged-16-billion-during-storm-2021-3 84 comments politics
- Ex-Texas power grid chief says Abbott ordered him to charge maximum during freeze https://www.axios.com/texas-power-grid-greg-abbott-ed54536a-e4b3-42f3-9222-19f92d50b41f.html 2 comments politics
- Why does Texas have its own power grid? https://powerandmarkets.substack.com/p/why-does-texas-have-its-own-power 35 comments energy
- Texas power grid CEO fired after deadly February blackouts https://www.marketwatch.com/story/texas-power-grid-ceo-fired-after-deadly-february-blackouts-01614827724?mod=mw_latestnews 34 comments politics
- What’s going on with the Texas power grid? https://link.medium.com/fo5go5vkwdb 3 comments worldnews
- What went wrong with the Texas power grid? https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/wholesale-power-prices-spiking-across-texas-15951684.php?s=09 14 comments politics
- Texas' Power Grid Crumples Under the Cold https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/texas-power-grid-crumples-under-the-cold 23 comments politics
- Texas Bitcoin Miners Turn Off to Conserve Power for the Grid https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/texas-bitcoin-miners-turn-off-to-conserve-power-for-the-grid-301547420.html 84 comments bitcoin
- Texas Plans to Become the Bitcoin Capital, Vulnerable Power Grid and All https://finance.yahoo.com/news/texas-plans-become-bitcoin-capital-150033930.html 78 comments cryptocurrency
- How the Texas Legislature could change the state's power grid https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/26/texas-power-grid-reform-legislature/?utm_source=liveblogshare&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1622100222#abcab516-509f-47d8-8ee5-8a042a40826f 19 comments moderatepolitics
- Rep. McCaul defends Texas power grid: 'We're not used to this type of weather' https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/21/mccaul-texas-power-grid-winter-weather-470576 66 comments politics
- A deepfreeze is coming to Texas, and no one knows if the power grid is ready https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/a-deep-freeze-is-coming-to-texas-and-no-one-knows-if-the-power-grid-is-ready/ 64 comments technology
- A deepfreeze is coming to Texas, and no one knows if the power grid is ready https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/a-deep-freeze-is-coming-to-texas-and-no-one-knows-if-the-power-grid-is-ready/ 7937 comments technology
- How the Texas Legislature could change the state's power grid this session https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/26/texas-power-grid-reform-legislature/amp/?__twitter_impression=true 10 comments politics
- ‘Power Companies Get Exactly What They Want’: How Texas Repeatedly Failed to Protect Its Power Grid Against Extreme Weather https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/power-companies-get-exactly-what-they-want-how-texas-repeatedly-failed-to-protect-its-power-grid-against-extreme-weather 4 comments politics
- Bitcoin Miners Shut Off Rigs as Texas Power Grid Nears Brink https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-11/bitcoin-miners-shut-off-rigs-as-texas-power-grid-nears-brink 13 comments cryptocurrency
- Bitcoin Mining Offered as Solution to Texas Power Grid Problem https://archive.is/q2Krj 2 comments bitcoin
- Gov. Greg Abbott intervened to put a positive spin on Texas' power grid https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/28/texas-greg-abbott-power-grid/ 28 comments politics
- Texas power grid was 'seconds and minutes' from total failure, officials say https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/539501-texas-power-grid-was-seconds-and-minutes-from-total-failure-officials 38 comments politics
- Texas power grid suffers huge outage after thunderstorms hit https://www.newsweek.com/texas-power-outage-centerpoint-energy-thunderstorms-us-weather-1882166 32 comments energy
- Texas power grid operator asks customers to conserve electricity after six plants go offline https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-power-grid-operator-asks-customers-conserve-electricity-six-plan-rcna28849 4015 comments technology
- Failed State: Texas Power Grid Collapse Impacts Millions. Black & Brown Communities Are Worst Hit https://www.democracynow.org/2021/2/18/texas_power_shutoffs_robert_bullard 18 comments politics
- Former Texas governor Rick Perry claims Texans would rather endure blackouts than a federally regulated power grid https://www.businessinsider.com/rick-perry-says-texans-would-rather-blackouts-than-regulate-power-grid-2021-2 108 comments politics
- Texas Governor Calls For Investigation Into Group That Manages State Power Grid https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/968357225/texas-governor-calls-for-investigation-into-group-that-manages-state-power-grid 45 comments politics
- “He has total veto power”: Greg Abbott takes control over who will lead Texas’ troubled power grid, sources say https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/10/texas-power-grid-ercot-ceo-greg-abbott/ 17 comments environment
- “He has total veto power”: Greg Abbott takes control over who will lead Texas’ troubled power grid, sources say https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/10/texas-power-grid-ercot-ceo-greg-abbott/ 32 comments politics
- Texas Power Grid on the Edge of Breaking a Historic Record. Demand for electricity could soon top 80 gigawatts for the first time ever which would exceed even the worst-case scenario ERCOT envisioned. That’s more than California and New York are expected to consume Wednesday afternoon - combined. https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/texas-power-grid-on-the-edge-of-breaking-a-historic-record/3019860/?amp=1 425 comments energy
- Former chief of Texas' grid says Greg Abbott made the call to keep power prices high during freeze https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/former-chief-of-texas-grid-says-greg-abbott-made-the-call-to-keep-power-prices-high-during-freeze/Content?oid=28283172 168 comments politics
- Texas grid operator urges electricity conservation through Friday as temperatures rise and many power generators are offline https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/14/texas-power-grid-conserve-ercot/ 91 comments moderatepolitics
- Editorial: Texas leaders, stop asking nicely for industry to secure our power grid. Mandate it. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/editorial-texas-leaders-do-your-jobs-stop-16058201.php 11 comments politics
- Some Texas power plants unexpectedly went offline last week. The grid operator says it still doesn’t know why https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/24/texas-ercot-power-plants-offline/ 35 comments energy
- What Is Wrong With the Texas Grid? Our electric system can’t deliver the power we need when we need it most. But political leaders don't seem all that interested in fixing the problem. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/what-is-wrong-with-the-texas-grid/ 22 comments environment
- Texas Power Grid, Strained Last Winter, Now Faces an Early Heat Wave: As climate change contributes to weather extremes in both summer and winter, the vulnerability of the state’s power system is becoming increasingly apparent. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/climate/texas-heat-wave-electricity.html 9 comments climate
- Former Texas Governor Rick Perry says that Texans find massive power outages preferable to having more federal government interference in the state's energy grid. https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/rick-perry-says-texans-would-rather-be-without-power-for-days-than-have-more-fed-oversight 29 comments technology
- Why the High Plains turns off its turbines to limit wind production while the Texas power grid is stressed "They actually tell the wind generators to stop generating electricity. It gets to the point where [wind farm operators] literally have to disengage the generators entirely " https://www.kcbd.com/2022/08/02/why-high-plains-turns-off-its-turbines-limit-wind-production-while-texas-power-grid-is-stressed/ 41 comments energy
- Texas’ fragile grid isn’t ready for crypto mining’s explosive growth. “There’s no way we could do 27 gigawatts of crypto [in four years] ... that would put too much stress on the system too fast. We barely have the power plants to cover today.” Bitcoin mining could bring higher electricity bills. https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/14/23206795/bitcoin-crypto-mining-electricity-texas-grid-energy-bills-emissions 166 comments energy
- Texas governor asks crypto miners to shut down if power grid appears to fail. Abbot reportedly urged crypto miners to shut down in the event the state’s power grid appeared to be failing due to bad weather as it did in February last year, leaving hundreds dead. “Help me get through the winter.” https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/texas-crypto-mining-power-grid-b2004745.html 162 comments energy
- What Is Wrong With the Texas Grid? Our electric system can’t deliver the power we need when we need it most. But political leaders don't seem all that interested in fixing the problem. Make no mistake, the state of the power grid is a political failure of major proportions. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/what-is-wrong-with-the-texas-grid/ 213 comments energy
- Can the fragile Texas power grid handle a cryptomining boom? Record-breaking heat across Texas has pushed its fragile power grid to the brink, stirring opposition to energy-guzzling crypto miners who’ve flocked there. “It is completely inessential and consuming physical resources, time and money." https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/can-fragile-texas-power-grid-handle-cryptomining-gold-rush-rcna15726 110 comments energy
- [Yang]: Kyrie on 20, 30 years in the future: “I don’t know if you guys will see me. I’ll probably be in 800 acres in Texas in the middle of nowhere. Off the grid in a self-sustaining community, just living with no power. Like this is fun and all, but technology is just killing me, man.” http://twitter.com/nicolecyang/status/1046872088013811717 20 comments nba