The grid operator for most of the state warned this week that the summer is likely to bring record-breaking peak demand for electricity, a situation that can threaten electric reliability and jack up prices It’s not unusual for the heavily air-conditioned state to use...

Talk with almost any healthcare or senior care executive about emergency backup power, and the conversation will invariably turn to Florida and the 12 nursing home patients who died following Hurricane Irma in 2017. In that case, patients at the facility were left in...

The burgeoning U.S. microgrid industry is set to install less controllable capacity this year than it did last year. But that setback may prove a temporary blip, especially if a new effort to back up the beleaguered Northern California grid comes to function. The U.S....

As our energy economy continues to evolve, it's becoming increasingly clear that the growth of assets on the customer side of the meter is going to grow rapidly. Severe weather events that increase the focus on the need for both reliability and resiliency, combined...

From a perch near the Gulf of Mexico, Entergy Corp. is positioning itself as a utility company of the future — even if critics lament what that could mean for electricity choices and costs in the South. The company, Louisiana's largest power provider, is exploring a...

Any utility key accounts manager knows that commercial and industrial customers never want their operations disrupted by power outages, which results in lost profits and harms their reputations. How are some leading public power utilities keeping the lights on during...

Houston-based Enchanted Rock LLC is preparing to establish a foothold for itself in California. Enchanted Rock, which provides microgrids to customers in need of reliable power supply, is already in talks with a number of grocery store chains in the region that may be...

Houston is full of pioneering companies across all industries, and 26 have been selected for the Houston Business Journal's inaugural Innovation Awards. See the list of honorees at the end of the story. To be considered, Houston-area companies must have been in...

ERock is prepared to provide additional support to the grid this summer, as the buffer between supply and demand narrows. ERCOT strives to keep its planning reserve margin at a minimum of 13.75 percent of peak electricity demand, however it only forecasts 9.3 percent...

Houston based Enchanted Rock Ltd. has added its second Houston senior living facility to its growing base of microgrids. The company has reached an agreement with Tradition Senior Living LP to build a microgrid around the new Tradition campus underway on Buffalo...