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Texas House panel weighs anti-renewable energy bills fueled by winter storm The bills would tack big, grid-related costs on wind and solar power producers, who say that would chill, possibly halt, their rapid growth. An official with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said in February that 16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, were offline during the winter storm. Nearly double that, 30 gigawatts, had been lost from thermal sources, which includes gas, coal and nuclear energy.(Marjorie Kamys Cotera for The Texas Tribune) AUSTIN — A package of bills deb...

Https://youtu.be/nIznov8xLFw Alison Silverstein is an independent energy consultant and former strategic advisor for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (FERC) She spoke for a webinar sponsored by Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation.

Texans were left in the cold and dark this February, following extreme cold weather that had the Texas competitive energy market unable to prevent deadly power failures. Leaving behind its historic commitment to power system independence and joining the larger U.S. grid can relieve some of the consequences of extreme weather events Texas is likely to see again, many energy analysts in and out of Texas said. "We designed this system for Ozzie and Harriet weather and we now have Mad Max," said Texas energy consultant Alison Silverstein, a former Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and Fed...

You will not find a better informed, more useful conversation and primer on what went wrong in Texas, and where to go from here.

Energy experts weigh in on what happened during last week's storms Four energy experts gave their thoughts on what led to the statewide power outages and what needs to change. Author: Hank Cavagnaro Updated: 7:42 PM CST February 24, 2021 AUSTIN, Texas — Many questions remain after the storms that shut down power across Texas. Many of them are about what went wrong. Earlier on Wednesday, a group of experts sat down and talked about what they think happened and what needs to change. It's a reminder of the snow that many of us were staring down last week. "We al...