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The Road Not Taken

To increase reliability — and reduce the need for deeply unpopular conservation calls — there's a major lever the PUCT and ERCOT have yet to pull

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Doug Lewin
Aug 22, 2023
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The Ercot control room in Austin, Texas.
ERCOT’s control room. Photo credit: Bloomberg News

A quick note: I’ll host a paid subscriber Q&A this Thursday in Substack Chat from 9:30am to 11:00am CST during the PUC’s Open Meeting where they will discuss reliability, electricity market changes, implementation of legislation from the 88th regular session, and more. I will do another one Thursday morn…

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