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A winter storm financing bill signed into law after the regular session of the Texas Legislature has become an issue again after senators brought attention to […]

…February storm to call for the resignations of both the PUC board and ERCOT, both of which were fully reformed through Senate Bills 2 and…

…of the state’s electricity market. His orders to the Public Utility Commission signaled a move away from the state’s Wild West approach and…

…of extreme weather caused the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the grid in most of the state, to project power use…

Gov. Greg Abbott last week sent a letter to the Public Utility Commission of Texas directing the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to take…

…area saw 6-7 inches of snow. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has also declared the highest level of energy emergency and is…

…supply chain woes exacerbated the power crisis. The Texas Public Utility Commission, the agency that oversees the operators of Texas’ power…

…that had just adjourned. Since then, two conservation alerts issued by ERCOT during temperate spring weather prompted renewed questions, and…

…the month of June, the Electrical Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, which operates the statewide grid, told Texans they could face a…

…leading to the deaths of more than 200 people – the power grid operator ERCOT has a new plan. When the grid failed during February’s massive…

…president, Brad Jones, and the three-member board of the Public Utility Commission, which oversees Jones and the Electric Reliability Council of…

…to sign up for a voluntary “emergency response” program coordinated by ERCOT. Dozens of mostly natural gas facilities, including some directly…

…ERCOT promises thorough investigation of June power plant outages…

…president, Brad Jones, and the three-member board of the Public Utility Commission, which oversees Jones and the Electric Reliability Council of…

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, has rolled out its plan to address improvements to the state’s power grid. On Tuesday, July…

…Governor Greg Abbott today sent a letter to members of the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) directing them to take immediate action to…

…met with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas and the Public Utility Commission to discuss how to ensure the grid operates reliably,…

Texas lawmakers passed major bills in response to the winter storm power outages that killed hundreds of Texans in February. But there’s still a lot to […]

Texas spent more than $46 billion buying electricity during a single week, more than five times what it spent on electricity in all of 2020.

The result was 32 hours of prices clearing at $9,000/MWh in what the Monitor called “billing errors.” The PUC declined to reprice the $16 billion in […]