The Texas Public Utility Commission’s rookie electric utility regulators last week stood in front of the proverbial fire hose, wielded by ERCOT staff, market participants and the grid’s Independent Market Monitor, as they try to get a grip on how best to respond to February’s disastrous winter storm. In what the PUC billed as the …

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The Texas PUC has ordered ERCOT to waive its protocols and disclose generator-outage data three days after an outage, rather than the standard 60 days.

A New Mexico utility regulator has declared that climate change is caused by human activity, establishing the assertion as scientific fact beyond debate.

Texans responding to ERCOT's call for conservation helped the embattled grid operator survive another week of tight conditions.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed the OPUC's Lori Cobos to the Public Utility Commission, filling out the current commission.

ERCOT insiders at ACORE's Finance Forum spoke candidly on the causes and lessons learned from Texas' February outages.

February’s winter storm, which threw Texas and much of the Midwest into a deep freeze, remains a hot topic as seen at recent industry conferences.

Texas regulators last week agreed to end a moratorium on customer disconnects for nonpayment that dated back to February as energy prices soared in the wake of a severe winter storm. The Public Utility Commission said Friday that with a “proliferation” of available financial support and the need for utilities to resume normal business operations, …

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a pair of comprehensive reform bills that he said would fix the “flaws” that lead to February’s power failure.

Five former Texas regulators have released a report with recommendations to  prevent additional weather-driven blackouts like those in February.