Thomas Gleeson
Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
Thomas Gleeson chairs the Public Utility Commission of Texas, a term running to September 2029; the commission he leads was due to weigh ERCOT's compliance-waiver request at its 20 August 2026 meeting.
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Thomas Gleeson chairs the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT), the state's electricity regulator, with a term set to run to September 2029.
Gleeson served as the PUCT's executive director from December 2020 before Governor Greg Abbott appointed him to the commission and named him chair. Abbott's 3 August 2026 audit directive named Gleeson's commission, alongside ERCOT, as the body responsible for reviewing every data-centre project in the interconnection queue .
That responsibility lands on a commission already managing a queue that has grown past 474 GW; the PUCT was due to consider ERCOT's request for a compliance waiver at its 20 August 2026 meeting, the first test of how the audit will be carried out in practice.