The Texas Supreme Court declined to wade into a fraud suit against Texas’ independent energy regulator filed by a power generator that invested $2.2 billion in two new power plants in reliance on the regulator’s projections of a shortfall of electricity. These projections were later revised to indicate an excess of generation capacity. However, the Texas Public Utility Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over these claims.
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Opposing Texas’ top Republican officials, the state’s House speaker stonewalled a Senate-drafted bill that sought to waive $16 billion in winter storm energy surge pricing.
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Houston-based CenterPoint Energy was hit with a wrongful death lawsuit from the daughter of a man who died in last month’s winter storm because he was unable to use his respirator due to power outages. The utility company is accused of mismanaging electricity allocation.
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Texas senators, armed with an emergency mandate from the governor, blew past typical procedures to pass a bill requiring energy regulators to retroactively lower prices during the February winter storm that knocked out power for millions.
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CPS Energy accuses the Electric Reliability Council of Texas of overcharging billions of dollars during last month’s winter storm.
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Cyprus, Israel and Greece on Monday signed an initial agreement on laying the world’s longest undersea power cable linking their electricity grids.
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A Texas man filed a wrongful death lawsuit against San Antonio’s electric and gas utility after his wife died during a power outage amid last month’s winter storm.
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Griddy Energy is accused of downplaying the inherent risks of variable rate electric plans that led to bills in the thousands of dollars during last month’s storm.
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Texas’ Republican governor joined Biden as he toured sites in Houston and the president agreed to add more counties to a disaster declaration so their residents can qualify for federal aid.
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Energy executives were among those questioned by Texas lawmakers on Thursday as officials try to sort out why so many people were left in the dark for days amid freezing temperatures.
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In a pair of new reports, experts urge the state to shield low-income families from future rate increases as utilities prepare to spend billions prepping for wildfires and climate change.
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Experts say power companies need to be forced, not asked, to harden their systems against increasingly powerful storms.
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he lead plaintiff in a class action claims her bill spiked from $200 to $9,340 despite power being out for days during last week’s winter storm.
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Hundreds of thousands of Texans have power again, but a second winter storm continues to stress the grid.
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Texas grid managers say the current best-case scenario is that widespread power outages could become shorter in duration by Thursday.
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Ford announced a major push into electric vehicles in Europe, vowing to convert its entire passenger car lineup on the continent to electrics by 2030.
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Texas electric grid operators and transmission companies say it could still be days before power is fully restored after a brutal winter storm.
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A group that advocates for energy-efficiency released its first-ever report on how different states are incentivizing the adoption of electric vehicles in an effort to reduce emissions and found California outpaced its peers by a significant margin.
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Indonesia said Wednesday it had signed a $9.8 billion electric vehicle battery deal with South Korea’s LG as it moves to become a global production hub for the green technology.
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Belarus’ nuclear power plant, which went out of service a few days after it started operating, resumed producing electricity, officials said Thursday.
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