March 25, 2026
Grimes County Has No Land-Use Plan. That's Every Developer's Problem Now.NextEra Energy has secured Texas land for a major gas plant to serve hyperscalers, pairing it with 20-plus GW of existing Texas wind and solar.
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NextEra Energy operates significant electrical generation and transmission infrastructure across Texas, including natural gas and renewable energy facilities that supply power to the state's grid.
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March 24, 2026
Texas Invited the AI Boom. The $14B Transmission Bill Is the Invoice.NextEra Energy secured Texas land for a multi-gigawatt combined-cycle gas plant, CEO John Ketchum announced at CeraWeek.
March 23, 2026
NextEra Bets $16 Billion That Texas Demand Is RealNextEra Energy secured federal approval to build 10GW of natural gas generation across Texas and Pennsylvania, anchored by a 5.2GW, $16 billion Project Anderson in Anderson County that will feed directly into ERCOT.
February 26, 2026
Turbines Ease the Power Bottleneck. 91 Billion Gallons Say Water Is Next.ExxonMobil partnered with NextEra on a 1.2 GW gas plant dedicated to datacenter supply; Chevron teamed with GE Vernova on similar projects.
February 19, 2026
Water, Not Power, Will Decide Who Wins the Texas Data Center RaceExxonMobil and NextEra are building a 1.2 GW dedicated gas plant; Chevron partnered with GE Vernova on gas-fired datacenter supply.
February 10, 2026
Behind the Fence: Texas Gigawatts Stack Up Faster Than Rules Can FollowXcel Energy reserved five GE Vernova F-class gas turbines and multi-GW wind capacity slots, while signing an MOU with NextEra to co-develop generation for large loads including datacenters.
February 9, 2026
The Grid Can't Build Fast Enough, So the Industry Is ImprovisingNextEra Energy, the nation's largest utility, disclosed it is considering up to 6 GWe of new SMR capacity sited at existing nuclear plants or greenfield locations, driven explicitly by datacenter demand.
February 7, 2026
Geothermal Goes to Wall Street as Texas Grid Planners Face Record Demand ChallengesSeparately, Xcel Energy locked in five GE Vernova F-class gas turbines and multi-GW wind capacity from NextEra to backstop a 6 GW datacenter load outlook across its territories, including Texas Panhandle operations.
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