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Texas lawmakers are considering bills to pay back banks, natural gas suppliers and power generators that sold energy at the height of the freeze in February. But some worry the solution they’ve found could reward negligence and criminality.
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To make sure the burden of any future outages are shared among more people for less time, the utility is looking to get big industrial or commercial customers to agree to voluntarily cut power to leave more for homes.
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Inadequate gas supply was a major reason for the crisis, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to many state lawmakers debating bills to address it. As the session winds down, it's unclear if they will ensure gas infrastructure is weatherized to withstand the next big freeze.
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The federal agency has more than $161 million in aid for Texans who need help covering storm-related expenses.
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It's Becoming Clearer Who Profited From The Blackouts, And That's Raising Questions Of Price GougingNatural gas was in short supply during the blackouts and could be sold at a premium. With no market controls, gas increased hundreds of times its normal value.
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Renters are living in conditions they or their landlords have deemed "unlivable."
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Tenants of Mount Carmel Village will get a one-time payment and a guaranteed right to move back to their apartment once the main gas line at the property is repaired.
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ERCOT has released a preliminary report about the causes of the power outages during February’s winter storm. But some stakeholders are already calling for it to be clarified — or even retracted. Industry experts say the news media and public are misinterpreting the data.
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Bob Kahn's quick departure from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas shows just how difficult restoring public trust in the grid manager will be.
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The office will determine whether the deaths were due to hypothermia, carbon monoxide poisoning, crashes or other causes linked to the freeze.