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The price of electricity remained fixed at $9,000 until the morning of Feb. 19, 32 hours after ERCOT had lifted its last load-shedding order. That became […]

Texas faced a brief power-grid scare Tuesday night, less than 60 days after widespread blackouts left millions without light and heat for days during a deep […]

Millions of Texans went without electricity for days in the cold. Winter Storm Uri left 111 dead. Property damage totaled $130 billion. Yet, many natural gas […]

This is a money grab that would re-regulate part of the Texas electrical system without addressing one of the key problems that triggered outages earlier this […]

The current market monitor says electricity prices were too high for too long during the storm, resulting in about $16 billion of overcharges in the final […]

And it specifically says in the time of a disaster, you may not engage in, as a supplier, profiteering and price gouging.” That law basically limits […]

…commissioners are allowed to earn income from the industry they regulate. In 2019, Craddick and her father, Representative Tom Craddick, a Republican from Midland, earned more […]

Nearly half of Texas’s power-plant capacity went down in February after a severe winter storm froze equipment, halted gas supplies and triggered blackouts that left more […]

They left it to the Public Utility Commission and the Texas Railroad Commission, industry-friendly regulators who didn’t require the kinds of preparation that might have kept […]

Melissa Smith lives in the Dallas area, and she’s a customer of TXU Energy, a Vistra subsidiary. After her home flooded, Smith asked her husband to […]

But power producers that had successfully served the ERCOT market throughout the emergency timeframe — having previously experienced windfall profitability as a result of supplying critically-needed […]

Abbott’s agenda got a shakeup, though, following the winter storm that battered the state weeks after his State of the State speech, killing at least 111 […]

A less expensive and ultimately more effective way to prevent or reduce the likelihood of another such crisis would be to significantly increase spending on energy […]

It’s all too easy to become cynical about the Texas Legislature. After all, the entire disaster unfolded in part because lawmakers basically ignored the recommendations made […]

Policy observers blamed the power system failure on the legislators and state agencies, who they say did not properly heed the warnings of previous storms.

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said Monday that KCI’s gas bill for February increased to $2.4 million. The bill from the airport’s Texas-based gas provider was […]

“A good portion of that is because they did not deliver all of the gas that we’d asked for,” Gold-Williams told council members.  Here’s a full […]

“The aftermath of a declared statewide disaster should not be a ‘jackpot’ for gas sellers,” CPS said in a lawsuit against Energy Transfer obtained by Bloomberg.

Last week, this committee listened to testimony on SB 2142, which was the bill that would have required the PUC to force ERCOT to correct its […]

“Imagine going to the gasoline pump during a natural disaster and seeing the price of a gallon of gas at about $348 or about $7,000 for […]