Public Utility Commission of Texas

August 11, 2026

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Gov. Abbott's Audit Leaves Batch Zero With No Restart Date

August 8, 2026

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Skybox, Digital Realty, Mara, Montera Sign Binding Pledges to Gov. Abbott

August 7, 2026

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Gov. Abbott Guardrails Win First QTS Commitment on Grid Upgrades

August 6, 2026

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Self-Supplied Sites Move Ahead While Grid Projects Wait

August 5, 2026

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One Keller Comment Filing Shows How the Statewide Audit Reaches Each Project

August 4, 2026

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Every Queued Project Must Now Prove Water and Generation, With No End Date Set

August 1, 2026

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The Same $50K Fee That Screens Datacenters Now Applies to Chevron and Samsung

July 28, 2026

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Post Security Before the Study, or Watch Your 2027 Slot Go to a Buildable Project

July 9, 2026

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89% of New Power Requests Are Datacenters. Abbott Wants Guardrails.

July 8, 2026

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Ratepayers Come Off the Hook. Developers Underwrite the Wires Themselves.

July 7, 2026

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The Permian Gets Texas's First 765 kV Backbone, and CREZ Wrote the Playbook

July 3, 2026

The Public Utility Commission of Texas staff has endorsed ERCOT's operating conditions for Crusoe Energy and Ensign Infrastructure's AI campus behind the Goodnight 1 wind farm in Armstrong County, one of the first tests of Texas's framework for colocating large loads with existing generation.

June 26, 2026

The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved ERCOT's "Batch Zero" study in June 2026, a centralized process that separates committed gigawatt-scale loads from speculative requests through readiness tests: site control, permits, financing, equipment orders, realistic demand forecasts.

June 25, 2026

The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved ERCOT's Batch Zero framework, a one-time systemwide study that consolidates evaluation of new large loads of 75 MW or more, replacing the utility-by-utility reviews that buckled under AI demand.

June 22, 2026

The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved ERCOT's new batch-study process for projects 75MW and larger, the first time an independent system operator has adopted batch rules at that scale.

June 19, 2026

On June 18, the Public Utility Commission of Texas approved the Batch Zero framework, a solvency screen forcing projects above 75 MW to prove site control, post nonrefundable fees, and show credible financing before they hold a queue position.

June 18, 2026

The board voted June 2 to launch "Batch Zero," a tiered process that isolates financed, land-secured projects from speculative paper, and the Public Utility Commission of Texas reviews the framework Thursday.

June 14, 2026

Governor Abbott directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT on Wednesday to submit recommendations by July 17 on data center water efficiency, ratepayer cost impacts, and community safeguards, with legislative proposals targeting the 2027 session.

June 10, 2026

The Public Utility Commission of Texas is building the screen that separates real load from speculative load before ratepayers eat the cost of phantom transmission.

June 2, 2026

ERCOT's board votes Tuesday on ride-through rules that would require data centers to stay online during grid disturbances or face disconnection penalties, with the Public Utility Commission of Texas likely to finalize later this year.

June 1, 2026

ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas haven't taken up separate rate-class mechanics, but the question is coming.

May 30, 2026

ERCOT doesn't yet separate data centers into a distinct customer class. Developers who negotiate cost-sharing terms now, while the regulatory frame is still forming, will shape what the Public Utility Commission of Texas eventually codifies.

May 28, 2026

Texas operates under different institutions, with ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas as the primary actors, but the national direction is set.

May 16, 2026

Texas's advantage is structural: ERCOT publishes the queue, the Public Utility Commission of Texas runs the interconnection framework, and AEP Texas can execute on a 1-GW campus while peer states debate whether to let municipalities veto projects.

May 14, 2026

The vote lands the same week ERCOT warned the Public Utility Commission of Texas it has "concerns" with its own 368 GW load forecast for 2032.

May 11, 2026

Texas operates under ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas with different mechanics, but the political template is portable.

April 27, 2026

The risk runs the other way too: if the Public Utility Commission of Texas treats private SMRs and gas self-supply as competitive threat rather than demand relief, permitting friction lands on the developers who moved earliest.

April 25, 2026

The Public Utility Commission of Texas unanimously approved the first direct wind-farm-to-datacenter connection on the ERCOT grid, the same week ERCOT's high-side demand scenario, peak load above 367,000 MW by 2032, was sent back as unrealistic.

April 24, 2026

ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas operate transparent dockets with defined queues, though PUCT has flagged demand forecasting uncertainty that developers should price in.

April 18, 2026

ERCOT filed a preliminary 2032 peak demand forecast of 367,790 megawatts with the Public Utility Commission of Texas this week, more than four times the August 2023 record of 85,508 MW.