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Webber Research & Advisory Continues Platform Expansion with Additions in Carbon Capture and Hydrogen Midstream News provided by Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Webber Research & Advisory LLC ("Webber Research"), a leading Renewables & Energy Infrastructure research and advisory boutique announces the continued expansion of its New York and Houston offices, including additions within Carbon Capture, Hydrogen Midstream development, and Alternative F...

Time and again Texas regulators and lawmakers furthered the interests of large electricity providers

Publishing date: Feb 26, 2021  •  February 27, 2021  •  3 minute read  •  Article content (Bloomberg) — Texas’s grid operator needs to come up with $1.3 billion to pay power plants for energy they supplied during last week’s historic blackouts, raising the prospect it may require a state bailout. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages most of the state’s grid, said it’s still waiting on more than $2 billion in payments from retail power providers and ot...

How Texas Repeatedly Failed To Protect Its Power Grid Against Extreme Weather -- by Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-based Luminant, whose equipment malfunctions during a more severe storm in 2011 resulted in a $750,000 fine from state energy regulators for failing to deliver promised power to the grid. In the earlier cold snap, the grid was pushed to the limit and rolling bl...

Four board members of Texas power grid operators plan to leave their post after last weeks widespread blackouts, which left millions of people without electricity amid the cold weather situations. Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) board chairwoman and vice chairman with two other board members issued a letter announcing their intention to resign from their position at a meeting on Wednesday, NBC News reported. "To allow state leaders a free hand with the future direction and to eli...

The network spun a false narrative that said frozen wind turbines and somehow, the Green New Deal, were to blame for the Texas power outage.

“Power companies get exactly what they want”: How Texas repeatedly failed to protect its power grid against extreme weather Texas Tribune Jeremy Schwartz, The Texas Tribune And Propublica, And Kiah Collier And Vianna Davila, The Texas Tribune And Propublica Published:  Tags:  Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Also, Ad In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas’ largest ...

Also, , our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas’ largest electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. Its generators failed more than a dozen times in 12 hours, helping to bring the state’s electric grid to the brink of collapse. The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-based Luminant, whose equipment malfunctions during a more severe storm in 2011 resulted in a $750,000 ...

In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas largest electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. Its generators failed more than a dozen times in 12 hours, helping to bring the states electric grid to the brink of collapse.The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-base...

Texans will pay for decades as crisis tacks billions onto bills Mark Chediak, Naureen S. Malik and Josh Saul, Bloomberg News Texas winter storm causes energy market rally VIDEO SIGN OUT Now that the lights are back on in Texas, the state has to figure out who’s going to pay for the energy crisis that plunged millions into darkness last week. It will likely be ordinary Texans. The price tag so far: US$50.6 billion, the cost of electricity sold from early Monday, when the blackouts b...