Texas Power Supply Depends on Natural Gas Flow No One Tracks
State regulators don’t require natural gas producers to report outages so supply dips can leave power providers in the lurch.
Texas cold snap slowed natural gas production, stoking electricity worries
Energy experts said the production drop during a relatively ordinary cold front could be a bad sign for the grid if the state is struck by extreme winter weather again.
Hope is not a strategy to keep the lights on, Texas must assure it
Former ERCOT IMM supports mandatory reliability standard in ERCOT, #1 TCPA recommendation for reliability through the competitive market.
Let’s Face It, Texas: Natural Gas Let Us Down. Again
Texas policymakers are looking for scapegoats for the February outages, but Texans have a collective inability to blame natural gas.
Gas Sellers Reaped $11 Billion Windfall During Texas Freeze
The official autopsy of the great Texas winter blackout of February 2021 quickly established a clear timeline of events: Electric utilities cut off power to customers and distributors as well as natural gas producers, which in turn triggered a negative feedback loop that sunk the state deeper and deeper into frigid darkness.
Texas Generation Group Suggests PUC Implement Nonbypassable Charge to Fund Generation Weatherization
In comments to the Texas PUC in a proceeding on weatherization standards, Texas Competitive Power Advocates (TCPA) recommended that the PUC adopt a cost recovery mechanism, perhaps through a non-bypassable charge, for facilities subject to new weatherization mandates for whom cost-of-service ratemaking is unavailable.