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Arthur D'Andrea, who was designated chair shortly after Walker left the post, resigned on March 16. "Peter Lake has been a diligent public servant throughout his time with the Texas Water Development Board, and I am confident he will bring a fresh perspective and trustworthy leadership to the PUC," Abbott said in a statement. "Peter's expertise in the Texas energy industry and business management will make him an asset to the agency. I urge the Senate to swiftly confirm Peter's appointment." Lake has served on the Texas Water Development Board since Dec. 2015, including the last three years a...

April 12, 2021 This storyline also claimed a lack of electricity from wind and solar had nothing to do with the disaster that claimed almost 60 lives. Instead, the blackouts were the failure of normally reliable thermal power—natural gas, coal, and nuclear—due to a reluctance to spend billions of dollars to winterize facilities throughout a state more known for persistently hot summers than for transient polar vortices. A variant of this liberal argument was posited by Pedro Gonzalez at American Greatness. The headline echoed the corporate media’s main gloat over Texas’s misfortune: �...

“As our state takes appropriately aggressive measures to stem the tide of a disease with outsize potential to spread and harm our citizens, we must include provisions to assist families at increased risk of losing power, water and sewer service,” DeAnn Walker, the utility commission chairwoman at the time, said. But no state money was dedicated to promoting the program to the general public; utility customers not on a special low-income list  were responsible for requesting the relief. And behind the scenes, lobbyists for utilities and trade associations were meeting with state officia...

Houston — The Public Utility Commission of Texas on April 7 initiated a revision to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas' scarcity pricing rule to ensure that a "circuit breaker" change in the systemwide offer cap, designed avoid harming consumers, does not create what the chairman called "absurd results." Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now At issue is the switch from ERCOT's $9,000/MWh "High Systemwide Offer Cap," or HCAP, to the "Low Systemwide Offer Cap," known as LCAP, which is the higher of ei...

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 Griddy) illegal in Texas. We asked all of the state representatives and state senators from the grea...