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Texas Public Utility Commissioner DeAnn Walker is off the job. 

The chairwoman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the agency that regulates the state’s electric, telecommunication, and water and sewer utilities, resigned Monday, according to a resignation letter provided

What have state legislators learned after two days of hearings last week? Author: Andrew Moore Updated: 8:53 PM CST March 1, 2021 TEXAS, USA — State lawmakers spent hours last week questioning the CEO of ERCOT, the chairwoman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and power company leaders after extreme weather conditions led to power outages across Texas. Monday, 6 News spoke with Texas Representative Drew Darby, who sits on the Energy Resources committee, about what the legislature needed to do next.  "Certainly communication was one of the great failin...

In a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday, DeAnn Walker resigned as the Chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and is calling on others to come...

State leaders continue to probe what went wrong with the power grid during the February winter storm and what can be done to keep it from happening again. "First, there needs to be a central point of accountability," he said. "And clearly, with the disparate system the way it is now, and you saw it come out in the hearings, people were doing this. It's not my fault, it's their fault." Rosenthal watched the first set of hearings on the issue last week and is submitting a package of bills called STEP UP (Securing Texas Energy Power Utilities Package) which he hopes is part of comprehensive chan...