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Texas House takes modest steps to avoid another winter blackout with weatherization and communication Texas House takes modest steps to avoid another winter blackout with weatherization and communication The bills advanced Sunday would revamp management of the state’s main electric grid and tackle weatherization and emergency communication. The Texas House on Sunday advanced two bills that would take modest steps to prevent a repeat of the state's winter blackouts, by revamping the management of the electric grid and tackling weatherization and emergency communication. Feb. 15 file photo s...

Published: Thursday, May 20, 2021 Texas Capitol in Austin following a winter storm. Photo credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Documents from the Public Utility Commission of Texas, which is based in Austin, show how early state leaders were dealing with gas issues in February. The Texas Capitol is pictured in this Feb. 19 photo. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Texas' electricity leaders were deeply focused on natural gas shortages days before blackouts crippled the state in February and plunged the state's power industry into chaos, according to documents obtained by E&E News. A phone log shows more t...

Houston — Texas lawmakers had on May 7 more than 30 bills pending, designed to address the deadly mid-February winter storm that left about 4 million customers without electricity for various periods across four days, and state regulators are awaiting lawmakers' decisions before advancing eight storm-related projects. Not registered? Most of the bills pending in the Texas Legislature can be placed in eight categories: Six bills provide some form of securitization -- i.e., bond issuance -- for the financial impact on electric or gas customers or suppliers. Six bills require the esta...

Opinion Letters to the Editor -Texas legislators, Sen. Ted Cruz, ‘wokeness,’ free speech, Bill and Melinda Gates, accountability in ERCOT mess, wage equity Readers ask what Texas legislators are up to, wonder why Sen. Cruz and others are afraid of “woke” discussions, question the parameters of free speech, worry about the repercussions of the Gates’ divorce, praise Dave Lieber for again showing the secretiveness regarding the ERCOT investigation and demand wage equity. In this Feb. 1, 2019, file photo, Bill and Melinda Gates smile at each other during an interview in Kirkland, Wash....

Opinion Don’t read this story unless you want to learn about secrets being kept from us in the Texas electricity crisis The Watchdog makes the case for an independent commission to investigate Texas’ abysmal power performance. Watchdog Dave Lieber notes that Texas leaders have not created an independent investigation to study the February weather disaster. He says Gov. Greg Abbott is at the center of the scandal.(screenshot NBC5) 1:48 PM on Apr 29, 2021 CDT Gov. Greg Abbott, quick to point blame at wind and solar energy and grid operator ERCOT for the February weather disaster, had his ow...