Texas House takes modest steps to avoid another winter blackout with weatherization and communication
Texas House takes modest steps to avoid another winter blackout with weatherization and communication
The bills advanced Sunday would revamp management of the state’s main electric grid and tackle weatherization and emergency communication.
The Texas House on Sunday advanced two bills that would take modest steps to prevent a repeat of the state s winter blackouts, by revamping the management of the electric grid and tackling weatherization and emergency communication. Feb. 15 file photo shows snow-covered Arboretum Village near White Rock Lake in Dallas.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
Houston Texas lawmakers had on May 7 more than 30 bills pending, designed to address the deadly mid-February winter storm that left about 4 million customers without electricity for various periods across four days, and state regulators are awaiting lawmakers decisions before advancing eight storm-related projects.
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Most of the bills pending in the Texas Legislature can be placed in eight categories:
Six bills provide some form of securitization i.e., bond issuance for the financial impact on electric or gas customers or suppliers.
Six bills require the establishment of emergency reserve power generation capacity.
Four focus on weatherization of electric and gas facilities, but one of the securitization bills also funds weatherization.
LIST: Texas lawmakers tell us what they are doing to fix the state’s electric system
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TEXAS – State lawmakers are pouring through more than 200 proposed bills in Austin that would bring change to Texas’ electricity market. While almost all of the proposed laws focus on requiring power generators to maintain their plants to avoid another massive outage like we saw in the winter freeze, one bill would make wholesale and variable rate electric plans (like the plans sold by Griddy) illegal in Texas.
We asked all of the state representatives and state senators from the greater Houston area the same three questions to find out which lawmakers are working to resolve the issues with Texas’ electric market. Twenty-four lawmakers didn’t answer our questions. You’ll see who didn’t reply at the bottom of this article.
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