By: L.M. Sixel | State regulators put retail electricity providers on notice Friday that if they don’t offer the same electricity plans to their Spanish-speaking customers as they do to their English-speaking ones, the Public Utility Commission will yank them

By: L.M. Sixel | The old saying that timing is everything also applies to buying electricity. Many consumers choose the cheapest electricity plan they can find and typically sign up for a one-year contract. But a one-year contract may not

By: Bob Sechler | What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger might be a fitting maxim for the state’s main electricity grid as summer winds down. The grid — strained to near capacity over the past few months by triple-digit temperatures

By: Bernard L. Weinstein | The summer of 2018 isn’t quite over, but it will undoubtedly go down as one of the hottest on record with at least 20 days of post-100-degree temperatures in Texas. Not surprisingly, high temperatures have been accompanied

By: Mark Watson | Strong wind generation helped the Electric Reliability Council of Texas system cope with the mid-July heat wave with high prices, but such wind capacity is unlikely to be available if another heat wave strikes in August,

By: L.M. Sixel | This summer was supposed to be brutal with days of triple-digit temperatures, less generating capacity and predictions the power grid couldn’t support the state’s electricity needs. Some of the dire warnings were spot on, as Texas

By: Margot Habiby and Chris Martin | North Texas smashed a 93-year-old daily heat record Thursday, with the mercury climbing to 108 degreesFahrenheit (42 Celsius) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. “Delay walking your dog until sunset” during the heat wave,

By: Jeff Mosier | Texas’ electric grid operator planned for a challenging summer. Now, it’s here with electricity-usage records falling daily since Monday. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas set a sixth electricity-usage record in the last four days. Between 4 and

By: Jeff Mosier | Texas electric grid operator planned for a challenging summer. Now, it’s here with back-to-back electricity usage records. Electric Reliability Council of Texas announced yesterday that usage averaged 70,963 megawatt between 4 and 5 p.m. That was the most ever

By: L.M. Sixel | If you’ve been shopping around for an electricity providers, the rates may be cheaper than they appear on Power to Choose, the website run by the Public Utility Commission of Texas. A major component of electricity bills