Texas municipal leaders formed a group to communicate directly with ERCOT dallasnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dallasnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As the U.S. leaves Afghanistan, the fight against terrorism continues on a second front
Afghan writers and scholars had been successful in changing some hearts and minds.
In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan.(Rahmat Gul)
By Mohibullah Zegham
1:30 AM on Jul 18, 2021 CDT
This op-ed is part of an occasional series published by The Dallas Morning News Opinion section on human rights and human freedom.
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The war against the Taliban is being fought on two fronts. NATO and the Afghan security forces have been fighting on the battlefield. And, on the front of daily life, civil society activists, writers and scholars have been tirelessly promoting democracy, human rights and women’s rights, fighting extreme ideologies to change the extremist mentality, especially in the lower ranks of the Taliban.
Pat Wood helped create Texas’ electricity market, then he lost power for 36 hours in the freeze
The wild success of renewables came as a surprise and revealed a problem in the market design.
A transmission tower supports power lines after a snowstorm on Feb. 17, 2021 in Altamesa Boulevard and Crowley Road in Fort Worth.(Omar Vega)
1:30 AM on Jul 18, 2021 CDT
This op-ed is part of a series published by The Dallas Morning News Opinion section to explore ideas and policies for strengthening electric reliability. Find the full series here:
By 2030, Texas will likely get electricity from renewables 80% of the time.
That’s not a wild goal from environmental activists who want you to set your thermostat at 82 and wash your clothes by hand. That’s a prediction from energy expert Pat Wood, a former electricity regulator who helped write the law that deregulated the Texas electricity market.
Ditching electric competition would cost Texas
A capacity market won’t assure reliability, but it would cause Texans’ electricity bills to rise.
Temperatures reach 97 degrees with a sensation of 105 degrees in Dallas on Monday afternoon, June 14, 2021, as ERCOT send a conservation alert asking Texans to reduce electric use through Friday.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
By Bill Peacock
1:30 AM on Jul 18, 2021 CDT
This op-ed is part of a series published by The Dallas Morning News Opinion section to explore ideas and policies for strengthening electric reliability. Find the full series here:
Twenty years ago last month, Texas began its experiment to bring competition to its electricity market.
ERCOT s roadmap to reliability must lead to a thoughtful redesign of the market dallasnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dallasnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.