Pablo Vegas

April 14, 2026

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ERCOT's Batch Rules Are Still in Draft. Your Invoices Are Not.

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told the House Committee on State Affairs that incoming data center projects plan to draw 410,000 additional megawatts from the grid, roughly seven times the new demand ERCOT managed just two years ago.

April 13, 2026

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ERCOT's Queue Is Separating Real Developers From the Rest

CEO Pablo Vegas told the House Committee on State Affairs that 410,000 megawatts of data center demand sit in the interconnection queue, 87% of all incoming requests, roughly seven times the growth ERCOT managed just two years ago.

April 12, 2026

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400 Projects, Two Unanswered Questions, One Legislative Clock

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told legislators a transmission capacity study is underway to map available infrastructure and allocate annual interconnection capacity over a five-year horizon.

April 10, 2026

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Caprock Broke Ground. Projects That Can't Match It Won't.

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told the House Committee on State Affairs that over 130,000 megawatts of new projects entered the interconnection queue in the last month and a half, with data centers comprising roughly 87% of queue growth.

April 9, 2026

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Nine Months to Shape the Rules Texas Is About to Write

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas is responding with a carrot-and-stick framework offering faster interconnection to data centers that supply their own generation or agree to curtail on demand.