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Close Carmen Pena, right, waited for a ride Feb. 17 at the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center, an independent living center in Austin that lost power during the storm.  Montinique Monroe for The Texas Tribune featured When the power went out, Texas oil and gas regulators rushed to defend the industry’s image By Erin Douglas and Mitchell Ferman Apr 5, 2021 4 hrs ago Carmen Pena, right, waited for a ride Feb. 17 at the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center, an independent living center in Austin that lost power during the storm.  ...

Carmen Pena, right, waited for a ride Feb. 17 at the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center, an independent living center in Austin that lost power during the storm. Credit: Montinique Monroe for The Texas Tribune When the power went out for Marsha Hendler on Feb. 15, she rushed to her downtown San Antonio office to ride out the winter storm. Thankful to find the electricity and heat still on, she typed out an email to the elected officials who regulate her small, independent oil and gas company. “I strongly urge you to make public statements, to develop a PR program around o...

The CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), James Robb, testified that the state’s heavy reliance on natural gas and wind to make electricity has put Texas at higher risk of outages because both resources have been shown to be vulnerable to disruption. “Our assessment has consistently shown there are three regions of the country particularly vulnerable to these dynamics – California, Texas and New England,” Robb said. Rob vowed that NERC and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) would investigate whether natural gas supply problems caused most of t...

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Manchin, Capito focus on heightened concerns over power grid reliability, energy diversity By March 11, 2021 - 4:45 pm West Virginia’s senators are at the center of a national conversation about the reliability of the power grid. The power grid has been a focal point especially since major power outages during a cold snap in Texas last month. But extreme weather events affecting the power grid also have included the 2014 Polar Vortex or the extreme heat in California last summer. And in West Virginia last month, more than 100,000 people lost power when ice storms knocked down distribution...