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July 9, 2026

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

Abbott's June letter to PUCT's Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT's Pablo Vegas already instructed both agencies to make sure data center interconnections don't shift infrastructure costs onto ratepayers.

July 7, 2026

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

He's ordered the PUCT and ERCOT to deliver a joint memorandum by July 17 on actions taken and legislation needed, and directed the PUC to move on reducing residential ratepayer transmission costs by July 31, 2026.

July 6, 2026

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The April Deadline Beats the Rulebook by Three Years

He's asked ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas and PUCT Chair Thomas Gleeson for recommendations by July 17.

July 5, 2026

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Self-Supply Is Now the Floor for Political Viability in Texas

For developers with rural sites or pending PUCT power agreements, the near-term signal is clear: the self-supply mandate is now the floor for political viability.

July 4, 2026

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Abbott Hardens His Terms. The 2027 Legislature Holds the Pen.

His press office tied the language to his June 10 directive to PUCT Chairman Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas ordering that data centers not shift costs onto residential ratepayers.

June 29, 2026

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Washington Set the Deadline. Texas Already Wrote the Playbook.

The risk runs through notice and engagement: hundreds of Central Texas landowners petitioned PUCT over the $2 billion, 765-kV Bell County East to Big Hill line, alleging improper notice after route changes.

June 28, 2026

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Chevron Bets $7B That Off-Grid Gas Is the Faster Path to Market

The open risk is regulatory: whether ERCOT, the PUCT, or Texas legislators concerned about load visibility take a harder look at off-grid load this large.

June 24, 2026

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

A separate PUCT spring survey drew responses from 28 companies covering 92 facilities, less than a third of those believed operational.

June 21, 2026

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Cost-Causation Is Here. Generation-First Siting Wins the 226 GW Queue.

Governor Abbott's June 10 directive orders the PUCT and ERCOT to require AI datacenters to fund the transmission and interconnection capacity they consume, with an implementation memo due July 17 and residential transmission costs ordered down by end of July.

June 16, 2026

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Developers Foot 100% of the Wire. Ratepayers Get the Discount.

In a letter to PUC Chairman Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas, Abbott directed datacenters to fund 100% of their own electric infrastructure costs and structured interconnections so residential bills decline.

June 13, 2026

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Hyperscalers Wire $200M Upfront as ERCOT's Queue Hits 438 GW

His June 10 letter orders the PUCT and ERCOT to keep datacenter transmission and interconnection costs off residential bills by July 31, with an interim memo due July 17 detailing authority gaps and needed legislation.

June 12, 2026

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Self-Generation, Disclosure, and a 2027 Deadline: Abbott Resets the Terms

His June 10 directive orders the PUCT and ERCOT to shift full interconnection cost recovery onto developers, with regulator recommendations due July 17 and PUCT transmission cost measures by July 31.

June 11, 2026

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Abbott Names July 17. The 2027 Rulebook Starts Getting Written Now.

Governor Abbott directed PUCT and ERCOT to deliver ratepayer-protection recommendations by July 17 and pledged 2027 legislation requiring data centers to fund their own electric infrastructure, mandate water-efficient cooling, and repeal sales tax exemptions.

June 6, 2026

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Meitner Is the Template. 430 GW of Applications Are About to Find Out.

It's the power-first, water-first, workforce-first playbook landing in the Texas Panhandle the same week ERCOT's Batch Zero framework heads to the PUCT for June 18 approval.

May 24, 2026

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22,000 MW by 2030 Meets the First Moratorium Call

In Texas, Commissioner Miller's moratorium call and Weatherford's January 2025 zoning prohibition on data centers (which doesn't reach unincorporated Parker County, where Black Mountain assembled its acreage) show the same dynamic playing out under ERCOT and PUCT jurisdiction.

May 22, 2026

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Dallas Wins #1 Globally as Corpus Christi Shows the Real Constraint

Risk: ERCOT and the PUCT have no direct equivalent to Wyoming's LPCS tariff, and developers are voting with capital for jurisdictions where the regulatory pathway is pre-built.

May 21, 2026

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Dallas, Austin, West Texas Sweep the Global Top Three

The win is structural: a deregulated grid, the $9.4 billion Eastern Backbone 765-kV transmission build, and a PUCT batch study process that evaluates interconnection requests concurrently.

May 20, 2026

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Water Plan Skips the 400 GW Queue. Smart Developers Won't.

Eric Goff of Goff Policy calls the queue "effectively infinite," and ERCOT's "Batch Zero" framework, plus the first PUCT-approved 765 kV lines and the ERCOT Board's $9.4 billion Eastern Backbone, are the mechanisms that convert queue position into construction schedule.

May 19, 2026

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NextEra Pays $67B for the Playbook Texas Has Run Since 2024

Texas developers should expect PUCT and ERCOT to reference the alert in future interconnection rulings.

May 18, 2026

Texas remains the structural winner thanks to ERCOT, the PUCT, and behind-the-meter gas economics.

April 19, 2026

ERCOT itself flags the forecast as preliminary and likely overstated, and the PUCT has already sent forecasts back for revision.

April 4, 2026

The Crusoe-Google Goodnight campus in the Panhandle is the first operational test case under PUCT's new co-location net metering rules, and the outcome will set the baseline for every behind-the-meter deal that follows.

April 2, 2026

Gas solves the speed problem, but developers face carbon-footprint scrutiny and potential regulatory tightening. West Virginia's permissive model will attract imitators; whether ERCOT's framework stays competitive depends on how the PUCT implements its new large-load rules.

March 31, 2026

The Public Utility Commission of Texas is implementing five parallel rulemakings under SB6, with proposed interconnection standards demanding $50,000-per-megawatt deposits and 80% forfeiture penalties for withdrawal, costs that Monarch Energy calculates could mean $25 million upfront for a single 500 MW project just to discover grid feasibility.

March 28, 2026

Risk: behind-the-meter generation sidesteps interconnection queues but concentrates gigawatt-scale off-grid loads in ways ERCOT and the PUC of Texas haven't yet addressed.

March 27, 2026

the PUC of Texas filing stipulates the gas plant serves only Meta for its first five years, a structure that insulates ratepayers but invites scrutiny on the renewable transition path.

March 25, 2026

Watch for the site announcement and any engagement with the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

March 18, 2026

Kerwin called for mandatory public notice through TCEQ and PUC, plus an executive working group on water standards and ERCOT interconnection impacts.

March 14, 2026

That question will land at the PUCT before long.

March 13, 2026

The PUC's $13-14 billion Permian Basin Reliability Plan calls for 260 transmission lines by 2038, anchored by three 765 kV lines, the highest-capacity in the state.

March 12, 2026

The grid operator presented its batch study framework to the Public Utility Commission on February 20, replacing serial project reviews with simultaneous cluster evaluations across a six-year reliability window.

March 11, 2026

The resolution, sent to Governor Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick, the PUCT, ERCOT, and the Texas Water Development Board, follows a public hearing that drew roughly 90 residents and reflects a pattern now visible across Hood County, Somervell County, and Jack County simultaneously.

March 9, 2026

The PUCT plans to launch a survey this spring to collect actual datacenter water usage data, a move HARC's Margaret Cook called essential for informed planning.

March 6, 2026

Bottom line: treat the pledge as a political signal, not a binding framework, and watch for whether the PUCT moves to codify any of it.

March 3, 2026

Watch whether ERCOT or the PUCT begins pricing the grid-planning externalities of wholesale off-grid disconnection.

February 18, 2026

with the PUC and ERCOT still working through how the "kill switch" (remote disconnection of loads ≥75 MW during grid emergencies) and transmission cost-shifting will function in practice.

February 14, 2026

ERCOT scrapped its two-phase Batch Zero approach after the PUCT directed a pivot at its February 9 open meeting.

February 13, 2026

The Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) published a report estimating Texas data centers consumed roughly 25 billion gallons of water in 2025, a figure that could balloon to as high as 161 billion gallons annually by 2030, while the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) agreed on Feb. 6 to distribute the state's first water-use survey for data centers and crypto mining facilities this spring.

February 11, 2026

ERCOT is responding by updating its planning process for large-load interconnections, a move driven by a queue exceeding 150 GW and direct pressure from the PUCT.

February 10, 2026

It lands as ERCOT and the PUC are actively scrutinizing BTM arrangements over concerns that removing dispatchable gas capacity from the grid stack tightens reserve margins and shifts costs to ratepayers, making this deal a likely regulatory flashpoint.