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UT researcher: Texas needs a new look at energy market rules to avoid repeat of February blackout
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Natural gas production in Texas dropped by 85 percent during the week of February’s historic winter freeze a significant factor in the widespread blackouts that contributed to dozens of deaths and billions of dollars in property damage. (Jim Parkin/Dreamstime/TNS)/TNS
While city-owned CPS Energy challenges $700 million in natural gas bills from February’s historic winter storm, lawmakers and regulators have largely remained silent on whether gas suppliers illegally raised prices and why gas was so scarce when it was badly needed.
Lawsuit says Alabama blocking solar power with unfair fees FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019 file photo, Teresa Thorne walks out of her solar power-equipped home near Springville, Ala. The fees imposed by the Alabama Power company on customers who generate their own electricity with rooftop or on-site solar panels are now the subject of a federal lawsuit against the state s regulators. Environmental groups argue that punishing fees are purposely discouraging the adoption of solar power in the sun-rich state. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File) | Photo: AP By KIM CHANDLER Created: July 13, 2021 10:34 AM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The fees imposed by the Alabama Power company on customers who generate their own electricity with rooftop or on-site solar panels are now the subject of a federal lawsuit against the state s regulators.
Allege violations of Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act
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(Reuters) - Alabama residents and an environmental group have sued their state s power regulator in Montgomery federal court to challenge its approval of a monthly fee public utility Alabama Power Co levies on customers who generate their own electricity with solar panels.
In a Monday complaint, four Alabama Power customers with solar panels on their properties and the Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution accused the Alabama Public Service Commission (APSC) of violating the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) by facilitating price discrimination against small energy producers.
The Austin Energy Decker Creek Power Station natural gas plant in far East Austin, TX on June 25, 2021.
Paula Gold-Williams, the president and CEO of CPS Energy, said the days leading up to February’s winter storm were nerve-wracking.
“As we were entering the week before, we started seeing that it was going to cover the entire state, which is extremely unusual for Texas,” she remembered.
Demand for electricity and heating would be huge. To prepare, Gold-Williams said, San Antonio s city-owned utility had to make sure it had enough electricity contracted and enough natural gas to supply its customers and fuel its own power plants.