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Texas Utility Makes Case Pipelines Set ‘Unconscionable’ Prices
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 2 weeks ago(Bloomberg) -- Operations and marketing teams for a Texas pipeline company coordinated to sell gas...
UPDATE 2-CPS Energy to buy gas plants from Talen Energy for $785 million
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 2 months ago(Adds details, background in paragraphs 6, 7 and 8) March 27 (Reuters) - Utility firm CPS Energy said on Wednesday it would buy natural gas plants in Corpus Christi and Laredo in Texas from ...
Is your electric company remotely adjusting your thermostat? Amid Texas heat, some are.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoA year ago, a Houston Reddit board user noticed something strange was happening in his home. His...
Four ways virtual power plants can help the US grid keep up with demand
Canary Media via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAUSTIN, Texas — America’s demand for electricity is growing for the first time in decades. Sprawling...
Austin to enter mutual aid agreement with neighboring utility companies after February freeze
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA little over three months after an ice storm left tens of thousands of Austin Energy customers...
ERCOT emergency alert raises questions over Texas power grid’s design for summer heat
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThis summer’s record-breaking demands on the Texas power grid suggest that the system isn’t designed...
In trying to close its coal power plant, Austin encounters obstacles to going green
Texas Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe city approved a plan in 2020 to shut the Fayette Power Project plant with the aim of eliminating...
SMUD customers have seen 15% electricity rate increase in three years. Here’s why
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSacramento Municipal Utility District customers have seen an overall rate increase of 14.5% over the past past three years. The increase in electricity rates for residential and commercial customers ...
Why aren't Texans paid to help prevent blackouts during heat waves?
Canary Media via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIn Texas, record-setting heat is causing record-setting electricity demand , as power-hungry air...
Grumet: Others are fighting massive fuel charges from 2021 freeze. Why not people here?
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 7 months agoBack when so many of us were without power during the 2021 winter freeze, an executive with one natural gas producer likened that week’s astronomical energy prices to “hitting the jackpot” — ...