Tomlinson: Texas electric grid barely survives deep freeze. Will it survive the Legislature?
corporations that generate electricity with fossil fuels want new rules that benefit them
Schwertner, PUC Chair Peter Lake and others argue only natural gas plants capable of quickly turning off and on will solve our emergency backup problem. But while we will need some new natural gas power plants, building facilities that generate for only 30 hours a year is extremely expensive. Fossil fuel generators such as NRG, one of Texas’s largest, fully support a wholesale electricity market redesign that gives them higher profits. In filings with the PUC,, and those low prices discourage construction of new power plants.
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