Thomas Gleeson

September 21, 2026

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September 17, 2026

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September 2, 2026

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August 15, 2026

ERCOT General Counsel Chad Seely said the order puts verification "to the front of the line before we begin the interconnection study process"; while PUCT Chairman Thomas Gleeson framed it as adding certainty to Batch Zero, ERCOT still targets April for Batch Zero study completion and held inclusion notices after the letter.

August 10, 2026

At a State Senate Committee on Business and Commerce hearing last week, State Sen. Phil King of Weatherford asked ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas and PUC Chairman Thomas Gleeson whether the state should impose a quota requiring a minimum percentage of new interconnecting generation to be dispatchable gas-fired capacity.

August 5, 2026

The directive went to PUCT Chairman Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas, and it lands against a queue of 474 GW in pending interconnection requests, more than five times the state's record peak demand, roughly 90% of it from data centers.

July 29, 2026

PUCT Chairman Thomas Gleeson told Governor Greg Abbott in a letter this month that the agencies want authority they don't currently have: direct emergency communication with data centers, mandatory state registration, and extension of the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act to the facilities themselves.

July 9, 2026

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 6, 2026

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

July 4, 2026

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 18, 2026

Governor Abbott's June 10 letter asked PUCT chairman Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas to propose rules shielding residential customers from data center-driven bills.

June 16, 2026

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

PUCT Chairman Thomas Gleeson backed the move.

May 20, 2026

PUC Chair Thomas Gleeson told lawmakers the state lacks a "clear picture."

April 14, 2026

PUC Chair Thomas Gleeson committed to investigating.

April 13, 2026

PUC Chair Thomas Gleeson committed to investigating.

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 11, 2026

PUC Chairman Thomas Gleeson cautioned that current consumption data lacks rigor, setting up a measurement fight that will shape regulatory expectations well before the 2027 legislative session.

April 10, 2026

PUC Chair Thomas Gleeson signaled rebalancing is coming.

April 9, 2026

PUC Chairman Thomas Gleeson is proposing non-refundable application fees to flush speculative projects, while ERCOT will shift to batch processing because individual review of 410 GW is operationally impossible.

February 17, 2026

PUC Chair Thomas Gleeson told an Austin conference: "I don't know if we're going to have enough wind, solar and storage for the 200, 300 gigawatts of load that are coming."