New! TCAP Timeline Shows Major Milestones
A new timeline tells history of the Texas electricity market, from deregulation’s beginning, to phantom tax collections by utilities, to a recent drive by generators to secure multi-billion-dollar subsidies.
With loss of tax breaks, new doubts about transmission expense
Texans are on the hook for nearly $7 billion in new transmission construction for wind power. But with the apparent loss of key tax breaks and a changing market, does all that expense still make sense? A state lawmaker raises questions.
State district judge sides with Texas electricity consumers
The Texas Public Utility Commission failed to explicitly consider costs to electric consumers when it awarded billions of dollars in transmission construction projects last year, a state district judge has determined. The finding, part of a case that could impact how...