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Service Failures During Hurricane Beryl Attract Legislative and Regulatory Attention
by Roslyn Warner and Jake Dyer On the heels of a May 2024 derecho, Hurricane Beryl made landfall near Matagorda, Texas on July 8, 2024 leaving more than 2.7 million Texans without power and resulting in ongoing political and regulatory… Read More
Public Utility Commission Establishes the ERCOT Reliability Standard
by Rick Arnett The Public Utility Commission of Texas (“PUC”), after a year and a half of deliberation, adopted the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (“ERCOT”) reliability standard. ERCOT will now simulate market conditions—such as available power supply, weatherization efforts,… Read More
Legislative Committees Evaluate Texas Electric Market During Interim Hearings
by Roslyn Dubberstein In mid-June, the House State Affairs Committee and the Senate Business & Commerce Committee held hearings to evaluate the progress of electric market changes from the 2023 Texas Legislative Session and to begin discussing potential focuses for… Read More
Texas Supreme Court Set to Determine Whether Public Utility Commission of Texas Violated Texas Law
by Rick Arnett On January 30, 2024, the Supreme Court of Texas (“SCOTX”) heard oral argument from the Public Utility Commission of Texas (the “Commission”), Calpine Corp. (“Calpine”), and Luminant Energy Co. (“Luminant”) in Luminant Energy Co. LLC v. Pub. Read More
Texas Broadband Update: The Broadband, Equity Access, and Deployment Program
by Jack Klug The Broadband, Equity Access, and Development (“BEAD”) Program was created as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and is a $42.5 billion federal grant program which aims to expand high-speed Internet access through the… Read More
Utility Takeaways from the 88th Legislative Session
by Roslyn Dubberstein Two years after Winter Storm Uri—the February 2021 winter weather event that left millions without power—utility issues remained a frontrunner during this year’s legislative session. Legislators filed approximately 300 bills relating to electric and gas utilities; of… Read More
Texas Supreme Court to Determine ERCOT’s Winter Storm Uri’s Liability
by Rick Arnett On January 9, 2023, the Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. v. CPS Energy, 648 S.W.3d 520 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2021, pet. granted) and Panda Power Generation Infrastructure Fund, LLC… Read More
Third Court of Appeals Decides Public Utility Commission Exceeded Authority During Winter Storm Uri
by Wyatt Conoly and Samantha Miller Luminant Energy Company (“Appellants”) filed a direct appeal in March 2021 to the Third Court of Appeals challenging the Public Utility Commission of Texas’s (“PUC’s”) First and Second Orders (the “Orders”) as competition rules… Read More
Electric Market Redesign Efforts Continue at PUC and ERCOT
by Roslyn Dubberstein BackgroundSince Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (“PUC”) and Texas’s independent system operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (“ERCOT”), have been laser-focused on evaluating and implementing reforms to the Texas… Read More
Energy and Utility: COVID-19 Update
by Thomas Brocato PUC Takes Actions to Address Coronavirus Threat The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC, or Commission) has joined other state agencies and entities in adopting measures to address the rapidly growing threat presented by the coronavirus disease… Read More
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