Sources:
- Connecting Past and Future: A History of Texas’ Isolated Power Grid.
- The history of ERCOT: How Texas became the only state with its own power grid.
Timeline:
1800s: Ice Plants.
1851: mechanical refrigeration machines
1882: Dallas Electric Lighting Company.
1882: Houston Lighting and Power.
1920: Federal Power Act.
1924: Texas Power & Light Company (now TXU) built the first true interconnection in the state.
1926: Houston Lighting and Power started building interconnections to sell excess power.
1930: Federal Power Commission.
1935: Public Utility Holding Company Act.
1941: Texas Interconnected System.
1941: Southwest Power Pool.
1964: National Power Survey.
1965: national power outage
1970: Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
1975: Public Utility Regulatory Act.
1975: Public Utility Commission of Texas.
1976: The Midnight Connection.
1977: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
1992: Energy Policy Act of 1992.
2002: Electricity Deregulation in Texas.
2002: Houston Lighting and Power splits in 3.
- - Reliant Energy took over the sales of electricity to businesses and individuals.
- - Texas Genco assumed control of the area's power plants.
- - CenterPoint Energy assumed control of the poles and power lines.
