Sep 16, 2015 | Legislative Watch
The winds have been blowing hard lately — so hard in fact that records are getting broken. According to the organization that manages the state’s main power grid, wind farms generated 11,467 megawatts of electricity on Sept. 13th — or enough electricity to serve...
May 22, 2015 | Legislative Watch
More than $200 million — that’s the amount all Texans could have saved if a modest number of them had reduced their electric consumption for only five days in 2012 and 2013, according to a new report. An advocacy group known as SPEER (also known as South-central...
May 12, 2015 | Legislative Watch
Here’s a bit of interesting news for Texas energy consumers. It’s a bit wonky, so stick with us. On April 14th, an independent expert announced that wholesale electric prices in Texas have dropped this year, as compared to what they were in 2014. Lower wholesale...
May 4, 2015 | Legislative Watch
Texas should have plenty of electricity this summer as well as relatively healthy power reserves through 2025. That’s the word from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas — the organization that operates the state’s primary power grid — which released on Monday...
Aug 6, 2014 | Industry News
Smart meters — that is, those automated electric meters that measure energy consumption at homes and businesses — cost Texans between $2 and $3 every month. Although electric utilities long have advocated for them, the benefits never included much by the way of...
