Credit: Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune Debbie Glaze, a lead gardener for Texan by Nature, says it’s hard to imagine the garden was once a coal mine. The company has set aside 9 more acres to ...

A South Texas coal mine and coal-fired power plant will host a new geothermal energy storage facility as part of a local electric utility’s energy transition. Sage Geosystems, a Houston-based ...

Texas is now home to 10 of 34 large Bitcoin mines. During cold spells or heat waves, Texans are commonly called on to conserve power. For example, in August 2023, the state’s grid operator ...

Among lawmakers’ chief grievances were the paucity of jobs generated by bitcoin mines in Texas, as well as their climbing power usage. According to testimony from ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas ...

As of 2023, according to The New York Times, five of the 10 largest Bitcoin mines were in Texas, using 1,212 megawatts (MW) of energy. That kind of chunk can significantly impact how the ERCOT ...

In the old ranchlands of South Texas, dormant uranium mines are coming back online. A collection of new ones hope to start production soon, extracting radioactive fuel from the region’s shallow ...

Texas is now home to 10 of 34 large Bitcoin mines. During cold spells or heat waves, Texans are commonly called on to conserve power. For example, in August 2023, the state’s grid operator ...

Increasingly, Texas lawmakers are worried that energy-hungry mines will make it harder to keep the lights on across the state. “They’re going to put our grid at risk because of the power they ...