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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...