The State Energy Plan Advisory Committee was created as part of Senate Bill 3, which state lawmakers adopted in response to February’s power crisis. ________________________________________________ Gov. Greg Abbott this week has announced four appointments to a new...
The new appointees — Paul Foster and Carlos Aguilar — are the first two directors named by the newly empaneled ERCOT Board Selection Committee, which was created in accordance with Senate Bill 2. ________________________________________________ The former Board of...
The reduction, if approved by the PUC, should lead to lower wholesale power costs during extreme energy scarcity events, such as last February’s Winter Storm Uri emergency that left 4 million Texans without power ________________________________________________ In...
Utility Dive: These 7 efficiency policies could help Texas avoid $8B in new gas plants, ACEEE says Oct. 14 — A set of seven residential energy efficiency and demand response programs deployed “aggressively” to Texas electric customers over five years...
The lack of critical facility designations during Winter Storm Uri represented one of the largest underlying failures of both the electric and gas industries during the event, according to the coalitions. ________________________________________________ Although...
