Texas has a history of killing energy reliability bills Jeremy Rogalski
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Gov. Greg Abbott’s call to legislators to better protect the state’s power system comes after a decade of failed legislation to improve energy reliability.
Since a 2011 winter storm crippled the state, at least a half dozen bills filed went nowhere some never making it out of committee.
Those include two bills filed by then-state Rep. Sylvester Turner before he became Houston’s mayor. One of those, HB 1986 filed in 2011
, aimed to ensure there was enough reserve power capacity to prevent blackout conditions. It never got a hearing. Another filed in 2015, HB 3343, would have created more steps to ensure enough power during high demand times. It also died in committee.