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ERCOT shuts down Griddy, as Paxton sues power retailer over deceptive business practices FacebookTwitterEmail Griddy, the California-based company that is selling wholesale power to Texans, is going head to head against Reliant Energy and TXU for market share. It put up a billboard "WTF Reliant" on the edge of downtown off of I-10 East, near Gregg ,Monday, July 8, 2019, in Houston. Reliant is reportedly very upset about the sign that went up late last week and has told the sign company to remov...

Listen • 17:12 For the first time since six ERCOT board members resigned, one of those board members gave a one-on-one interview about the power failure, the political fallout and the financial future of the grid in the wake of last months deadly outages. Peter Cramton is an economics professor at the University of Cologne and the University of Maryland. He has expertise and experience in complex market designs, including electricity and radio spectrum markets. He served a...

National Science Day celebrated Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Feb 28: To mark the discovery of the Raman Effect by Indian Physicist Sir, C V Raman, National Science Day was celebrated today by various educational institutions with basic objective to spread the message of importance of science and its application among the people. Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu celebrated National Science Day 2021 by organizing a function having theme “Future of Sc...

Opinion: I didnt recognize my country - Readers share how they weathered the winter storm FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Annabeth Golden, 12, with mom Heather Golden, finally gets a cup of hot chocolate Friday. Instead of a typically toasty home, the arctic blast left her family in the dark, “desolate, lonely and cold.”Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Houston Chronicle reader Bill Pond holds a photo of his parents, Minnie and Bill, in the home he has liv...

All-Time Marlins Countdown: Chapter 131 Today we’re featuring a pair of pitchers in our offseason-long series. Share this story The Florida and have employed a total of 630 players through their first 28 seasons of major league play. This offseason, we’re looking at each of them in turn. We’ve already featured 585 of them, and now have just 45 to go. The final 128 players in the countdown totaled 800 or more PA/BF while with the team, and players are ordered in ascending bWAR divided b...

Caleb Jones Associated Press Hawaii lawmakers are considering a bill that would standardize the states pandemic travel restrictions across the islands, a departure from the current system that allows individual counties to create their own modified safety measures. Members of the House Finance Committee heard testimony on the bill Thursday. Currently, island counties have the option to opt out of the states “Safe Travels” program, which requires a single negative COVID-19 test before depa...

Blue Whale is up to 50 per cent more energy-dense than other current lithium-ion battery systems, Corvus Energy said.

Why a celebrated local chef is pivoting and joining a growing movement. By Timothy Malcolm 2/26/2021 at 6:00am Published in the December 2020 issue of Houstonia Jonny Rhodes has had the kind of success a first-time restaurant owner could only dream of having. In July 2018 he opened Indigo, a 13-seat tasting menu restaurant set in Houston’s Northline neighborhood, which features dishes based on the survival of Black people and Indigenous Americans over centuries of oppression. While serving...

The U.S. military hit Iran-backed militants in Syria with retaliatory airstrikes near the Iraq-Syria border at about 2 a.m. local time. The Pentagon called the strikes a direct response to the recent rocket attack that killed a contractor and wounded six others in northern Iraq on Feb. 15. Defense One’s Katie Bo Williams reported on the attack at the time on location. Find her photos here; and her reporting here.  Seven 500-pound bombs were released from two U.S. aircraft, which carried out...

Two Men Who Saw the Storm Coming and Sold Their Electric Companies Before Disaster Hit Ambits Jere Thompson and Streams Rob Snyder determined the system was set up to fail. By Matt Goodman Published in FrontBurner February 26, 2021 10:41 am State lawmakers in Austin spent all of Thursday grilling the people responsible for keeping the power on in Texas. They want to know where and how the system broke down last week. But it really isn’t all that hard to figure out. Two former CEOs in Dallas ...