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 | 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 1, 2021 | Blog, Regulatory Action
The amended rule relates to a cap on the price for which generators can offer power into the ERCOT-administered market. ________________________________________________ In response to the financial fallout following Winter Storm Uri, Texas regulators last week...
by TCCFUI | Jun 19, 2021 | News Roundup
Houston Chronicle (Commentary): If Texas will not regulate methane emissions, then the feds must June 16 — The oil and natural gas deposits in the Permian Basin are millennia older than the states of Texas and New Mexico, which today sit on top of them. The...
by TCCFUI | Jun 17, 2021 | Blog, Regulatory Action
Ms. Cobos has led the Office of Public Utility Counsel since 2019. ________________________________________________ Lori Cobos — an Austin-based attorney who in recent years has led the state’s watchdog agency for utility consumers — has been named to the Texas Public...
