The PUC’s Efficiency Questions: A Potential Turning Point for Grid Reliability

The PUC is taking steps to move forward with increases in energy efficiency and demand response, a prerequisite to a reliable and affordable grid.

May 20, 2024

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This Thursday at noon looms as a key deadline for anyone who cares about Texas’ ability to have a reliable grid.

We’ve known for years — since long before Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and summer energy alerts in 2022 and 2023 — that the state needed to do much, much more to reduce energy waste and increase demand flexibility. Increasingly intense summer scor…

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