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Texas electricity bailout means a child not yet born could pay for February’s disaster as an adult‘Collective amnesia’: Texas politicians knowingly blew 3 chances to fix the failing power gridElectric Cooperatives, The Lone Shining Utility Star Of The Texas 2021 Winter StormAs Texas Went Dark, the State Paid Natural-Gas Companies to Go OfflineDoes power grid operator ERCOT purposely communicate in gibberish so we don’t understand?
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May 11, 2021
Electric Cooperatives, The Lone Shining Utility Star Of The Texas 2021 Winter Storm By University of Houston Energy FellowsMay 11, 2021 Winter Storm Uri began to […]
May 7, 2021
As Texas Went Dark, the State Paid Natural-Gas Companies to Go Offline A program meant to reduce industrial electricity use during emergencies contributed to power plants […]
April 6, 2021
KPRC 2 Investigates: How much are you paying for electricity deregulation? Amy Davis, Consumer ExpertAndrea Slaydon, Special Projects Producer Cheap and reliable electricity was the biggest […]
March 26, 2021
Opinion: Energy is key to our health and wealth, yet the public understands little about it We tolerate energy illiteracy at our own risk. Question: What […]
March 19, 2021
Experts fear reversing electricity prices from winter storm could make things worse BY MITCHELL FERMAN AND SHAWN MULCAHY It is unclear who would be helped or hurt — and […]
March 18, 2021
Paperwork failures worsened Texas blackouts, sparking mid-storm scramble to restore critical fuel supply BY ERIN DOUGLAS Dozens of natural gas companies failed to do the paperwork that […]
March 11, 2021
Texas can only recover a fraction of $16 billion ERCOT power pricing gaffe By Taylor Goldenstein An independent market monitor for the state said Thursday only […]
March 8, 2021
Deregulation Aimed to Lower Home-Power Bills. For Many, It Didn’t. By Scott Patterson and Tom McGinty Retail energy companies compete with local utilities to give consumers more choice. […]
March 1, 2021
Texas Power Market Shortfall Jumps to $2.5 Billion After Crisis By Mark ChediakMarch 1, 2021 Texas’s grid operator said it’s short nearly $345 million in payments […]