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LIST: Texas lawmakers tell us what they are doing to fix the state’s electric system Updated:  Tags:  TEXAS – State lawmakers are pouring through more than 200 proposed bills in Austin that would bring change to Texas’ electricity market. While almost all of the proposed laws focus on requiring power generators to maintain their plants to avoid another massive outage like we saw in the winter freeze, one bill would make wholesale and variable rate electric plans (like the plans sold by ...

State Rep. Hugh Shine, R-Temple, is co-sponsoring House Bill 1246 — legislation that would shift away from attendance-based funding for public schools. “This will be a very important piece of legislation that we will debate in the House and well as the Senate,” Shine said during a meeting hosted by the Belton Area Chamber of Commerce on Monday. During the meeting, Shine invited state Rep. Gina Hinjosa, D-Austin, to discuss the legislation. Hinojosa, a former president for the Aus...

Texas lawmakers have questioned and criticized the Electric Reliability Council of Texas for days about the near-collapse of the state’s power grid last week.

ERCOT CEO Defends Power Outages As Texas Lawmakers Probe Winter Storm Response Bill Magness, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, said widespread blackouts during last week’s winter storm were necessary to prevent grid failure. February 25, 2021, 6:00 AM Curtis Morgan, the CEO of Vistra Corp., at table left, testifies as the Committees on State Affairs and Energy Resources holds a joint public hearing to consider the factors that led to statewide electrical blackouts, Thursday, F...

Another ERCOT board member resigns as lawmakers criticize power grid operator for massive electricity outages Texas Tribune Updated:  Tags:  Firefighters clear snow and ice from a side walk outside of the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center in East Austin last week. After the near-collapse of the state’s power grid, seven board members of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas have resigned. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune Another Electric Reliability Council of Texas board memb...

Bill Magness, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, said widespread blackouts during last week’s winter storm were necessary to prevent grid failure.

Updated 11:11 p.m. The head of the states power grid operator on Thursday defended the group’s decision to order widespread blackouts during last weeks winter storm, telling state lawmakers that doing so helped prevent a larger disaster. Last week’s freezing weather led to skyrocketing demand and unprecedented strain on the power grid, forcing the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to enact sustained outages across the state to keep its grid from collapsing. But in response to a questio...

The 17 wildest things that happened during early voting FacebookTwitterEmail From threats to spitting, police had their hands full investigating these incidents during early voting in 2020.Melissa Phillip/Staff photographer A new report shows each and every interaction that police had with enraged voters, disgruntled poll workers and errant election judges during the 2020 election in Harris County. The Precinct 1 Constables Office led the Harris County Election Security Task Force, a small unit...

Houston was a train wreck for Democrats in 2020. Heres why. Jasper Scherer, Mike Morris, Stephanie Lamm, Staff writers Nov. 4, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Democrat Sri Kulkarni, right, listens to voter Destiny Ilori, left, after she submitted her vote at a polling site on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Houston. Kulkarni lost his bid for Texas’ 22nd Congressional District to Republican Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow L...