by TCCFUI | Aug 9, 2021 | Blog, Regulatory Action
Previously, three commissioners led the PUC, but after a change in law this year the agency now is set to have five members. ________________________________________________ Jimmy Glotfelty — a former energy company official and former senior advisor to the U.S....
by TCCFUI | Aug 6, 2021 | News Roundup
Reuters: Texas rail commissioner advocates tax credits for natural gas industry Aug. 5 — Texas Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright said in an op-ed the natural gas industry should get tax credits similar to renewable energy, to protect state infrastructure from...
by TCCFUI | Aug 6, 2021 | Blog, Gas, Legislature
Securitization is a low-cost financing method whereby utilities receive immediate payments for incurred expenses, while customers pay back the securitized amounts over an extended period through a surcharge on bills. ________________________________________________ On...
by TCCFUI | Jul 14, 2021 | Blog, ERCOT
The new data sets shed new light on ERCOT’s surprising June 14-18 call for energy conservation that it issued statewide. ________________________________________________ Many of the same plants that failed during the Winter Storm Uri freeze in February likewise...
by TCCFUI | Jul 11, 2021 | News Roundup
S&P Global: Growing problems with orphaned, abandoned wells challenges oil industry July 9 — In Texas, the Railroad Commission is charged with plugging orphaned wells, which in part entails shutting them down and filling the wellbores with cement. Even then,...
