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Recent directives create uncertainty for data center projects seeking ERCOT interconnection or requiring TCEQ permits.

By Nikki Buffa, Joshua W. Marnitz, Jeremiah Davis, and Nathaniel L. Glynn

In response to unprecedented growth in data center development and increasing public scrutiny of such projects, Texas officials have launched a series of regulatory and policy initiatives aimed at evaluating the effects of large-load facilities on ratepayers, electric reliability, natural resources, and local communities.1 Texas is currently the second-largest…

The rule positions the Railroad Commission of Texas as the primary permitting authority over Class VI wells and could expedite CCS projects in the state.

By Joshua T. Bledsoe, Nikki Buffa, Jennifer K. Roy, Nolan Fargo, and Samantha Yeager

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Texas’s application to assume primary enforcement responsibility, or “primacy,” for Class VI underground injection control (UIC) wells within the state. Class VI UIC wells are used for the permanent…