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Texas Airlifts Water With Ice Covering Roads: Energy Update

Texas Airlifts Water With Ice Covering Roads: Energy Update Bloomberg 2/20/2021 Joe Carroll, David Wethe and Josh Saul © Bloomberg A snow covered road near the Texas State Capitol Building in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. (Bloomberg) The Texas power grid has returned to normal operations as a historic cold blast eases, but the impact of the deep freeze is still leaving towns without water, homes yet to be reconnected to electricity supplies and highways chocked with ice and snow. Texas emergency officials are airlifting pallets of bottled water to cities and towns where water supplies were knocked out or disrupted by this week’s widespread power failures. About 1,000 of the state’s 7,000 local water utilities were offline or unable to ensure supplies were fit for human consumption as of Friday afternoon. More than 140,000 homes and businesses were still in the dark.

Biden s energy and pipeline regulator pick will drive green transition

Biden’s energy and pipeline regulator pick will drive green transition By Stephen Cunningham and Naureen S. Malik on 1/22/2021 (Bloomberg) Richard Glick, one of two Democrats on the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has been tapped by President Joe Biden to lead the agency set to play a pivotal role in the president’s goal to achieve a 100% clean grid by 2035. Glick, who formerly worked for utility giants Iberdrola and PacifiCorp., was widely seen as Biden’s obvious choice to lead FERC, which is responsible for approving natural gas infrastructure and overseeing electricity markets. “This is an important moment to make significant progress on the transition to a clean energy future,” Glick said in a statement on Twitter announcing Biden’s intention to nominate him as FERC chairman.​

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