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Big day at #txlege today. Hearing in Senate B&C focused on fixing the grid, proposed ERCOT market changes and in Sen Natural Resources on economic development programs (incl. for energy) and implementation of a bill that bans state investment in sustainable investors #txlege 1/🧵
An @insideclimate analysis of data collected by CA oil & gas regulators shows 100s of millions of gallons of freshwater that could supply cities and farms is being used to extract #FossilFuels—which exacerbate #drought. New from @paldhous and me. 1/7 insideclimatenews.org/news/18092022/…
But that figure may be higher. A 2014 CA law aimed to overhaul the oil & gas industry’s water-use reporting to keep tabs on excessive use. But as @paldhous' analysis found [code here bit.ly/3QVDJkj], the data is too error-strewn to do what the law intended. 2/7
Problems revealed by ICN reinforce earlier complaints about CA regulators’ data. A @CCSTorg report gave “pages upon pages” of recommendations to better serve the intent of the law, said lead author @DrLFeinsten. “I don’t think they’ve done a single one.” 3/7
The House State Affairs Committee is underway. @PUCTX Chair Peter Lake has made opening comment & now the questions have begun. Phil King is asking about a major market change called the Load Serving Entity Obligation which would add more costs. (cont.)
#energytwitter #txlege
#energytwitter #txlege
King wants to know if #txlege will be able to weigh in before the LSEO is implemented. The design of the LSEO is being done by E3 to "independently" analyze the proposal even though they proposed it for a big generator (NRG) last year.
houstonchronicle.com/business/energ…
houstonchronicle.com/business/energ…
@PhilKingTX expresses concerns about potential conflicts of interest from E3. He's right to be concerned.
@toddahunter says higher bills are coming and reminds the PUC Chair that the P in PUC stands for Public. Wants transparency for the public. cc: @DaveLieber
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@toddahunter says higher bills are coming and reminds the PUC Chair that the P in PUC stands for Public. Wants transparency for the public. cc: @DaveLieber
#txlege
In the midst of this historic May heat wave, the @PUCTX meets this morning. Should be some interesting discussions of ongoing market design changes, transmission, etc. Tweet thread with a few updates below.
Agenda and livestream here:
adminmonitor.com/tx/puct/open_m…
#txlege #txenergy
Agenda and livestream here:
adminmonitor.com/tx/puct/open_m…
#txlege #txenergy
Staff filed a memo to implement #SB1281 on #transmission in #ERCOT. Commissioner Cobos says its important to alleviate congestion "Today's economic problem is tomorrow's reliability problem." We need to get these projects going.
Staff memo here: interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/5340…
#txlege
Staff memo here: interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/5340…
#txlege
Commissioners and staff having a discussion about how resiliency fits into reliability metrics.
Cmsr Glotfelty said "transmission is hard to build, takes a long time." He knows of what he speaks.
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Cmsr Glotfelty said "transmission is hard to build, takes a long time." He knows of what he speaks.
#energytwitter
PUC meets at 9:30CT. Threre will likely be a discussion w/ERCOT about their letter on implementation of market design changes submitted Monday. More on content of the letter in @colinmeehan thread linked below.
#txlege #txenergy 1/3
adminmonitor.com/tx/puct/open_m…
#txlege #txenergy 1/3
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The ERCOT letter to the PUC has a timeline & costs (the last page of the filing), and provides some clear guidance about what's possible (e.g., they can't do everything in the PUC memo). I'll provide some updates throughout the meeting.
interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/5237…
#energytwitter 2/3
interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/5237…
#energytwitter 2/3
Tmrw at 9:30 the Electricity Supply Chain Mapping Cmte meets in public for the 1st time. Gas infrastructure on the map will have to weatherize; the rest won't, per SB3. This important report isn't due till Sept but will likely be done by April. 3/3 #txlege
adminmonitor.com/tx/puct/public…
adminmonitor.com/tx/puct/public…
Work session at the @PUCTX on rolling outages, load shedding, and transmission starting momentarily. I'll tweet some of the major takeaways here.
You can watch here: texasadmin.com/tx/puct/work_s…
Speaker slides here interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/5226…
Agenda below
#txlege #txenergy #energytwitter
You can watch here: texasadmin.com/tx/puct/work_s…
Speaker slides here interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/5226…
Agenda below
#txlege #txenergy #energytwitter
@AEPTexas said they had 11 critical load customers before the storm in Feb, 171 now. 160 facilities didn't fill out a 2 page form pre-Feb. Wow.
This adds new detail to this from @byjayroot @jblackmanChron @Dexinvestigates #txlege houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
This adds new detail to this from @byjayroot @jblackmanChron @Dexinvestigates #txlege houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
@TNMP had 2 gas facilities registered as critical infrastructure before the storm. Now has 177. This really is stunning. They're a small player but have a significant Permian footprint.
#txlege #txenergy #TexasBlackouts
#txlege #txenergy #TexasBlackouts
