Claire Hao
Reporter at Houston Chronicle
Reporting on energy & the TX power grid for @HoustonChron • From the Mitten State, alum @michigandaily • ✉️: [email protected] • RT ≠ endorsement
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3 days ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Evan MacDonald |Claire Hao
Multiple hospitals in the Texas Medical Center suffered power outages Monday afternoon. A Houston Methodist spokesperson confirmed some of the hospital's buildings lost power Monday and transitioned to emergency power for approximately 30 to 45 minutes. Power has since been restored, the spokesperson said. Memorial Hermann also announced a power outage at at least one of its locations shortly before 4 p.m. Monday. At least one emergency elevator was working.
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1 week ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Claire Hao
Two more natural gas power plant projects have been denied loans from Texas’ $5 billion program meant to attract more electricity supply for the state’s primary power grid. Including these two denials, almost five gigawatts of power plant projects have been denied funding or voluntarily withdrawn from the taxpayer-backed Texas Energy Fund, or enough capacity to power approximately 1.2 million homes.
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1 week ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Claire Hao
Fervo Energy has executed an agreement to sell power from its Utah geothermal project to Shell Energy North America, a retail energy subsidiary of the oil major Shell, the Houston-based geothermal startup announced Tuesday. The project, known as Cape Station, will also be upsized from 400 megawatts to 500 megawatts, Fervo said in its Tuesday announcement.
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1 week ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Claire Hao
Session after session, then-state Rep. Sylvester Turner introduced legislation to force Texas lawmakers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars collected from utility ratepayers for the money's intended purpose: Helping low-income familiespay their electricity bills. Session after session, Turner's bill proposals died in the Texas House or the Senate - and lawmakers used most of those dollars to fill gaps in the state budget instead.
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1 week ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Claire Hao
The main Texas power grid is poised to experience rapid changes in the next five to six years as a flood of artificial intelligence data centers and other industrial operations push an already-maxed-out system into unprecedented territory.
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