The Hays Energy Project, a 990 MW gas-fired power plant near San Marcos, is seen on May 27, 2025. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization ...

Many cheered when Sandow Lakes Energy first announced plans to build a huge new natural gas power plant in a region within the Texas Triangle still reeling from the loss of a major industrial complex.

So you want a new gas power plant? Better start waiting. As an ongoing policy experiment in Texas shows, even a helping hand from the state can’t get steel in the ground ahead of schedule. Last year, ...

Donald Trump had just been elected president when I first visited the sprawling Wyoming ranch of conservative billionaire Phil Anschutz in late 2016. But my tour guides didn’t let President Trump’s ...

From his Mendon Road horse farm, Eric Metz watches white clouds billow daily from the 940-megawatt natural gas power plant ...

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Centralized remote monitoring is reshaping power plant operations, enabling specialized teams to oversee multiple facilities ...

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