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March 14, 2011

Provisions in HB 2133 and HB 2134 would disrupt the Texas electricity market by effectively imposing price controls, resulting in harm to consumers.

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Fool Me Twice: Why the Texas Grid is Still Vulnerable to Winter Storms | Part 3: How Texas Can Solve Its Winter Reliability Problem

Part 3: How Texas Can Solve Its Winter Reliability Problem Five years after Winter Storm Uri, the ERCOT grid is still not ready for the next major winter storm. The first two installments of this series showed that demand has grown more than 20% since 2021 while firm generation capacity has barely budged, and the...

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K-12 Education

Bring Home the Mississippi Miracle: A Texas Triumph in Early Literacy

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Texas is About to Spend $100 Billion on Power Lines It Does Not Need

Our electric bills are about to go up. Most Texans have no idea why. Texas regulators approved $33 billion in new high-voltage power lines (the Strategic Transmission Expansion Plan, or STEP) without a single legislative vote. Factor in financing, maintenance, and taxes over the life of the projects, and the tab for ratepayers hits nearly...

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