Brazos Electric Power Coop has 1.5 million customers across 68 counties.
Brazos said that it received excessively high invoices from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas for collateral and for purported cost of electric service. The invoices were required to be paid within days. As a cooperative, Brazos costs are passed through to its members and retail consumers served by its members. Brazos decided that it won t pass on the ERCOT costs to its members or the consumers. Let me emphasize that this action by Brazos Electric was necessary to protect its member cooperatives and their more than 1.5 million retail members from unaffordable electric bills as we continue to provide electric service throughout the court-supervised process, Clifton Karnei, executive vice president and general manager of Brazos, said in a prepared statement.
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‘Digital Dictatorship’ Can Make Us Tolerate Destruction of Civilization Defeat It!
March 1, 2021 (EIRNS) A social media ban has been clamped down on criticisms of the Nov. 3, 2020 “perfect” U.S. general election. The next target is emerging: stating the wrong conclusions about “climate” and energy technologies.
A Feb. 23 article in the Washington Post amplified an attempt by the German Marshall Fund in Washington to call out for censorship, any statements that the failure of frozen-up wind turbines in Texas triggered the calamitous loss of power and heat by 10 million people and 40 deaths in the state.
UH to start distributing vaccines to students, employees
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A health care worker receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 21, 2020, in Houston, Texas.Go Nakamura, Stringer / TNS
University of Houston will begin distributing a limited supply of a COVID-19 vaccine to students, faculty and staff who qualify this week.
Suzy Harrington, UH’s assistant vice president for student affairs, said in an email Monday morning that the Houston university received a limited supply of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine through the Texas Department of State Health Services. The UH Student Health Center, which has partnered with Walgreens, will distribute the doses to qualifying enrolled students and UH employees at an on-campus mass vaccination clinic on Wednesday, March 3 and Thursday, March 4.
Fact-check: Had Texas state leaders been warned of blackouts for years? By Amy Sherman, PolitiFact.com, Austin American-Statesman
Texas power outages left woman with over $10,000 electric bill
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Beto O Rourke: “Energy experts and State House Dems, among others, were warning of this (the Texas power blackout) for years.”
PolitiFact s ruling: True
Here s why:The massive power outage in Texas that left millions with no heat amid frigid temperatures should have come as no surprise, according to former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke. Texans are suffering without power because those in power have failed us, said O’Rourke in a Twitter thread.
âTexas Gridâ does not cover all of Texas, Panhandle in better shape
KFDA NEWS AT SIX - VOD - clipped version By Freixys Casado | February 18, 2021 at 7:05 PM CST - Updated February 18 at 10:30 PM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - While thousands of Texans continue to be without power, most of the panhandle seems to be in better shape.
The United States is divided by three power grids. The Eastern Grid, the Western Grid and the Texas Grid, also refer to as ERCOT.
âTexas by itself is one of the largest consumer of electricity,â said Dr. Joshua Partheepan, assistant professor of systems of engineering at WTAMU. âThatâs one of the primary drivers why Texas wanted to become its own utility.â