Electrical workers repair a power line in Austin on Feb. 18, 2021. Some of the state’s electricity providers are financially underwater in the aftermath of the February power outages.
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Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune
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An approximately $2.5 billion plan to bail out Texas’ distressed electricity market from the financial crisis caused by Winter Storm Uri in February was approved by the Texas House Thursday.
The legislation would impose a fee — likely for the next decade or longer — on electricity companies, which would then get passed on to residential and business customers in their power bills. Lawmakers on Wednesday said they could not yet estimate how much it would impact Texans’ electricity bills.