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Public Citizen testifies on rolling blackouts in Texas Senate, Fraser threatens re-regulation

Posted in Energy, tagged electric reliability council of texas, public citizen texas, rolling blackouts, Texas, Texas Senate Hearings on February 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Senator Troy Fraser, the chair of Senate Natural Resources Committee, warned the major electric generation companies this afternoon that unless they move swiftly to shore up their power plants against extreme weather, they can expect more regulations from state government. Fraser said he would prefer free market solutions, but is prepared to impose new regulations, [...]

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Is the electricity market failing Texans

Posted in Energy, tagged deregulation, Electricity market, houston chronicle, rolling blackouts, Texas on February 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Loren Steffy, the Houston Chronicle‘s business columnist writes this week about why the lights went out. We are left with an electricity market that has failed at both ends. Leaving our power supply dependent on the whims of that market means that last week probably won’t be the last time it leaves us in the [...]

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ERCOT Board to review February 2nd “Event”

Posted in Energy, tagged electric reliability council of texas, rolling blackouts on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

ERCOT has moved their regularly scheduled board meeting up from Tuesday to Monday, February 14th to allow for a special 2 hour time to take up a review of February 2, 2011 Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Event.

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Senate to hear testimony on February power outages

Posted in Global Warming, tagged hearing, rolling blackouts, Texas, texas senate on February 11, 2011 | 9 Comments »

The Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce will convene in a joint hearing with the Senate Committee on Natural Resources at 8:30 a.m. on February 15, 2011, in the Senate Chamber. The purpose of the hearing is to receive updates on the power outages of February 2nd through 4th and to discuss the status, [...]

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Who didn’t contribute to yesterday’s rolling blackouts?

Posted in Renewables, tagged Coal, electric reliability council of texas, public citizen texas, Renewables, rolling blackouts, Texas, TXU on February 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Yesterday, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said cold weather had knocked out about 50 of the 550 power plants in Texas, totaling 8,000 megawatts. We can’t tell you which plants were down because that information is considered “confidential under market rules.” According to ERCOT’s website, its market rules “are developed by participants from all aspects of [...]

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