Apr 20, 2018 | Legislative Watch
Reform — that was the message delivered this week to Texas lawmakers considering the future of the much maligned Gas Reliability Infrastructure Program. Known also as “GRIP,” the program allows Texas gas utilities to increase rates once a year, but without any...
Apr 4, 2018 | Legislative Watch
Utility-scale energy storage — that is, those big battery arrays that can serve entire neighborhoods — hold great promise both for energy conservation and grid reliability. But the quickly advancing technology also raises tough regulatory challenges, especially for...
Mar 8, 2018 | Legislative Watch
Oncor, the state’s largest transmission and distribution utility, will soon have new owners. Amid applause and thank yous to gathered staff, the Texas Public Utility Commission on Thursday signed off on a multi-billion-dollar offer by California-based Sempra to...
Mar 7, 2018 | Legislative Watch
Responding to requests from regulators, Texas electric and gas utilities have begun filing paperwork showing how they’ll pass along savings from millions of dollars in new tax cuts. The Texas Public Utility Commission and the Texas Railroad Commission both called for...
Feb 21, 2018 | Legislative Watch
It’s called the Operating Demand Reserve Curve — ORDC for short. You can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of it. But the ORDC — which is a component of the state’s wholesale power system — was in the news this month … and in a way that could portend higher power...
Feb 13, 2018 | Legislative Watch
Gas and electric ratepayers in Texas could see their utility bills go down — or at least not increase as much as they might have otherwise — as a result of tax legislation recently adopted by the U.S. Congress. Leaders at both the Texas Public Utility Commission and...