PUC

July 8, 2026

Subscribe for full access

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

Abbott just reversed a decade of data center recruitment, and the mechanics now run through ERCOT and the PUC.

July 7, 2026

Subscribe for full access

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

The PUC got 28 responses from 92 facilities surveyed.

June 24, 2026

Subscribe for full access

Reeves County Banks 6,000 Jobs as the Behind-the-Meter Model Scales

The PUC's separate spring survey drew 28 responses covering 92 facilities.

May 27, 2026

Subscribe for full access

The 445 GW Queue Gets a Gate. Capital Commitment Is the New Credential.

Running parallel: PUC staff want to shift transmission cost allocation for large loads from four coincident peaks to contracted peak capacity, a change that would reshape which project economics actually pencil.

May 2, 2026

Katie Coleman of O'Melveny & Myers laid out the structural divide on the Energy Capital Podcast: private capital builds generation at risk, but transmission requires PUC approval and decades of rate recovery.

April 30, 2026

In Texas, SB6 implementation rulemaking sits at the Public Utility Commission as Project No. 58317, and Energy Capital's roundtable with Matt Boms and Dr. Joshua Rhodes flagged that transformers and substations now cost multiples of prior prices, amplifying the risk that all ratepayers absorb upgrades sized for a handful of customers.

April 23, 2026

The resolutions went to Governor Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick, Sen. Perry, Rep. Darby, the PUC, TCEQ, ERCOT, and the Texas Water Development Board.

April 12, 2026

PUC Chair Thomas Gleeson said generation-side price increases are unlikely given Texas's renewable and battery buildout, but flagged the state's multibillion-dollar transmission overhaul as a potential cost pressure.

April 10, 2026

Aligned Data Centers broke ground on Project Caprock, a 540MW, $5 billion campus near Abernathy in Hale County, while at the Capitol, lawmakers grilled ERCOT and PUC officials on who pays for the state's data center surge, and Google confirmed a 933MW natural gas plant under construction in Armstrong County.

April 9, 2026

The PUC is implementing non-refundable application fees for large load interconnection studies and shifting to batch processing.

April 7, 2026

Gov. Abbott's press secretary stated facilities "are required to bring their own power and to disconnect if Texans don't have what they need," and regulators require large data centers to register with ERCOT and the PUC, provide backup power, and help fund grid upgrades.