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Money for Nothing

Money for Nothing

Texas utilities want to be rewarded with lavish incentives for delivering less energy savings, at a time when Texas desperately needs to reduce energy waste for grid reliability

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May 21, 2025
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If another Winter Storm Uri hits next winter, ERCOT forecasts that peak demand will exceed 106 gigawatts. As things stand, the all-time ERCOT record is 85.5 gigawatts.

So if the nightmare storm of February 2021 repeats this winter, we’ll need to cover all of that, plus another Houston’s-worth of power.

Texas cannot begin to solve this challenge without f…

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