Competition has worked quite well to ensure reliability and affordable prices in Texas. Making capacity payments to generators is not necessary and would introduce complex and uncompetitive elements that would adversely impact Texas' competitive market.
Running Dry: South Texas’ Water Crisis
Farmers slowly dig up their losses and face the unsettling reality that their parched dams, once a reliable water supply for irrigation, will not be replenished. These hardworking, multi-generational Texas farmers are no strangers to the ebbs and flows of the seasons. But when a crop that the Rio Grande Valley has depended on for...