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A home builder and an electricity retailer are partnering to install backup power batteries in new homes as Texans brace for potential outages this winter.

The Southern Spirit Transmission project would allow limited energy to flow between the Texas grid and neighboring grids.

Despite an August of brutal heat, Texans have not been asked to conserve electricity like they were last year.

Power grid anxiety is nothing new in Texas. But a surge in artificial intelligence data centers is posing a new challenge to an already fragile energy system.

The massive share of renewable energy on the grid is a positive sign for efforts to combat climate change. It will become ever-more common as solar, wind and battery-storage facilities are added.

In oral arguments on Tuesday, the Texas Supreme Court was asked not to decide whether regulators made the right call, but whether they acted within their authority when they set energy prices to the max.

Over a third of the electricity on the Texas grid came from the sun on Sunday, a new state record.

When compared with other regional grids, it appears Texas issues more requests for consumers to conserve energy. The recent freeze reignited frustrations over the requests and the grid operators.

The grid's operator has requested that Texans conserve energy to maintain supply during the extreme cold. Many people are having flashbacks to the blackouts in 2021.

The grid operator said it's expecting electricity supply to be tight and asked Texans to conserve energy between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m.