Elected officials and thousands of landowners are sounding the alarm over proposed 765- kilovolt (kV) transmission lines, ...

Editor’s Note: The above video aired April 17, 2026. AUSTIN (KXAN) — A major project to move power across Texas to the Permian Basin through giant transmission lines is now facing growing pushback, ...

Construction crews install large-diameter water pipeline segments during a transmission main replacement project in rural Central Texas. The Bistone Municipal Water Supply District is planning a ...

Texas operates the most competitive wholesale electricity generation market in the United States. Every day, hundreds of power generators compete in ERCOT-run auctions to deliver the cheapest power to ...

GLEN ROSE, Texas—After a long journey north through Mexico’s highlands, small songbirds with bright yellow faces descend upon mature canopies of ashe juniper trees in Texas’ Hill Country. The ...

Texas is in the thick of figuring out where to lay power lines through a $33 billion transmission expansion, but changes in how lines are approved have landowners crying foul. The debate is playing ...

A woman’s face entered the corner of the screen. It was Jocelyn Perez, the Erath County judge’s chief of staff, whose eyes crinkled from smiling as she helped Trinque unmute. Trinque, a 65-year-old ...

On 1 August 2025, Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT or the Commission) staff (Commission Staff) opened Project No. 58484, Evaluation of Transmission Cost Recovery, pursuant to Senate Bill 6 (SB ...

A sign outside one of the properties that will be affected by the transmission in Burnet County, Texas. (Photo by Madeline de Figueiredo/The Daily Yonder) For months, rural communities across Central ...

U.S. economic health, national security, and quality of life rely on an affordable and reliable supply of energy. After years of stable or even falling electricity demand in the United States, ...

Large electricity users – particularly data centers and other energy intensive facilities – are reshaping how regulators, utilities, and grid operators think about system planning and interconnection.