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Rural Texas is generally not a place where we look for advice, but perhaps it should be. A recent commentary in The Amarillo Globe-News caught our eye because the problems it describes sound so similar to the ones we find in rural Virginia. The writer bemoans the population exodus from rural counties as the economy finds more and more reasons to create jobs in metro areas and fewer reasons to create them in rural communities. “That rural exodus has come at a cost,” the writer says. â...

Averting crisis: Path to weatherize Texas power plants and some gas wells set under compromise bill The Legislature’s biggest answer yet to weaknesses exposed by winter storm selectively weatherizes gas infrastructure, creates outage alerts and tightens coordination. A compromise bill unveiled by Texas House leaders on Tuesday would respond to Februarys electricity crisis by, among other things, weatherizing power plants – and, selectively, natural gas infrastructure. The bill also would cr...

Fotolia In efforts to prevent a repeat of the February disaster that left millions without electricity, Texas policymakers continue to disagree over the cause and appropriate mitigation efforts. The blackouts from the storm led to spikes in power prices and the deaths of at least 151 people. Republican leadership was quick to criticize renewables for the role they played in the blackouts, with Gov. Greg Abbott, R, claiming on national television ...

Lawmakers try new solution to minimize winter storm debt Most agree that securitization is an effective proposal to fairly and quickly pay off storm debt. Not all agree how to do it, and what costs should be covered. Large electrical transmission lines cross through South Arlington, Texas, on Feb. 17, 2021. Rolling power outages disrupted service to customers following snow storms. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) AUSTIN — One lingering question from February...

When deadly winter storms ravaged the state in February and power outages plunged more than 4 million people into cold and darkness, Gov. Greg Abbott had already set his priorities for the Legislature and the 140-day legislative session was a month old. Lawmakers were tackling issues related to the coronavirus pandemic, navigating a budget shortfall and pursuing conservative priorities such as expanding abortion restrictions, limiting transgender athletes and eliminating gun permits. But aft...

Texas House panel weighs anti-renewable energy bills fueled by winter storm The bills would tack big, grid-related costs on wind and solar power producers, who say that would chill, possibly halt, their rapid growth. An official with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said in February that 16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, were offline during the winter storm. Nearly double that, 30 gigawatts, had been lost from thermal sources, which includes gas, coa...

Https://youtu.be/nIznov8xLFw Alison Silverstein is an independent energy consultant and former strategic advisor for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (FERC) She spoke for a webinar sponsored by Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation.

Texans were left in the cold and dark this February, following extreme cold weather that had the Texas competitive energy market unable to prevent deadly power failures. Leaving behind its historic commitment to power system independence and joining the larger U.S. grid can relieve some of the consequences of extreme weather events Texas is likely to see again, many energy analysts in and out of Texas said. "We designed this system for Ozzie and Harriet weather and we now have Mad Max," said Te...

You will not find a better informed, more useful conversation and primer on what went wrong in Texas, and where to go from here.

Energy experts weigh in on what happened during last weeks storms Four energy experts gave their thoughts on what led to the statewide power outages and what needs to change. Author: Hank Cavagnaro Updated: 7:42 PM CST February 24, 2021 AUSTIN, Texas — Many questions remain after the storms that shut down power across Texas. Many of them are about what went wrong. Earlier on Wednesday, a group of experts sat down and talked about what they think happened and wh...