Tag: Texas

June 30, 2023

The Texas grid has remained reliable so far this summer, even as it set new demand records. Preliminary data shows ERCOT set a new peak demand record of 80,828 MW on Tuesday, besting the previous peak of 80,148 MW in […]

February 27, 2023

A proposal by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) would invest $100 billion over 10 years in transportation. The proposal is an estimated $15 billion more than the 2023 Unified Transportation Program (UTP). It would increase funding to border infrastructure, […]

February 16, 2023

Two years after Winter Storm Uri left millions in Texas without power for days, a new poll finds that a majority of Texans support expanding renewable energy over fossil fuels in the U.S. The poll was conducted by the Hobby […]

February 2, 2023

The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) said it will build a new 190-MW peaker power plant in central Texas to provide additional dispatchable power to the state’s electric grid. A peaker plant is one that is typically used only for […]

January 31, 2023

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an agreement between his state and the U.S. Military to manage infrastructure and transportation improvements on federal military properties in the state. The Statewide Intergovernmental Support Agreement (S-IGSA) authorizes the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) […]

November 18, 2022

Commercial Metals Company (NYSE: CMC) (“CMC”) today announced it completed the acquisition of a Galveston area metals recycling facility and related assets from Kodiak Resources, Inc. and Kodiak Properties, L.L.C. The acquired operation annually processes approximately 55,000 tons of ferrous […]

September 2, 2022

Entergy Texas President and CEO Eliecer Viamontes said the southeast region of the state is well-positioned to play a key role in the low- to zero-carbon hydrogen industry. “We are in the heart of hydrogen producers, extensive hydrogen pipeline delivery […]

July 18, 2022

THE WOODLANDS, Texas –Epsilyte, a leading producer of advanced materials in North America, announces investments to expand capabilities in both recycling and production. These investments will focus on three areas: Further expand post-consumer recycling capabilities at Epsilyte’s Piqua, Ohio, manufacturing […]

April 22, 2022

The PUCT on Thursday continued its work to overhaul the state’s wholesale markets in the wake of Winter Storm Uri and widespread blackouts last year. Commissioners are rushing to hammer out details that will inform an Aug. 1 FFSS request […]

January 31, 2022

The Texas Department of Information Resources on Monday announced the launch of a new mobile app designed to give the state’s residents access to a variety of government-agency services through a single access point. The Texas by Texas app, or […]

September 3, 2021

Sunny Delight Beverages Co. has been 100% landfill-free since 2010. The company has touted that it reached its zero-waste to landfill goal three years earlier than anticipated. Covanta recently published a case study that detailed how a partnership with the […]

September 1, 2021

The plains of West Texas for years have been featured as the backdrop for numerous Hollywood movies, whether the plot centered around the region’s oil wells, its cattle ranches, high school football or dusty baseball fields, all with sweeping vistas […]

June 22, 2021

AT&T’s 5G will provide the foundation for new private 5G network testing at Texas AT&T University’s RELLIS research campus, for exploration and development of commercial and defense use cases. The private 5G network testbeds will open this fall. The RELLIS […]

April 27, 2021

An energy investment group told Texas regulators the company has a plan to help solve some of that state’s electricity reliability issues, proposing a plan similar to one put forth by billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy in March. Starwood […]

April 22, 2021

California and Texas, the country’s two most populous states, have taken radically different approaches to the pandemic and the vaccination campaign to end it. California has trumpeted its reliance on science and policies it says are aimed at improving social […]

April 6, 2021

A California company has teamed with the U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s largest gas utility company to build a major solar power project just outside Houston, Texas. Rosendin, an electrical contractor with its corporate headquarters in San Jose, and Tokyo Gas […]

March 26, 2021

The winter storm that swept over Texas last month caused power shortages that left millions of people in the dark and without heat on the coldest days in decades. “Regardless of their exact causes, the Texas blackouts have served as […]

February 22, 2021

After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that’s taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. […]

December 17, 2020

Atlas Organics (Atlas), a leading commercial composting company seeking to increase municipal waste-solution partnerships across the U.S., today announced the company’s expansion of operations in San Antonio, Texas, to provide food waste and yard waste processing and composting management. Atlas […]

July 28, 2020

Steve Alvarez started feeling sick around Father’s Day weekend this year. His symptoms started as mild, but developed into a fever, chills and shortness of breath he couldn’t shake. “Just when I started to get to feeling better and I […]