April 15, 2021 — Rayburn Electric Cooperative has gone live with PCI’s Enterprise Platform to manage its member billing and settlement validation requirements in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) power market. As part …
April 15, 2021 — Solar products company Q Cells says it is securing an unspecified tax equity investment for its 81-MWp Kellam solar park in Van Zandt County. The plant is located in …
April 15, 2021 — Two Texas energy professionals have been named by Governor Greg Abbott to the Texas Tech Board of Regents. The two, along with a third new board of regents member, …
Editor’s note: Investors will likely spend about $1 billion on data tracking environmental, social and governance factors by the end of this year, according to data firm Opimas LLC. April 15, 2021 — …
April 15, 2021 — A bill bars state agencies from investing in or doing business with publicly-traded companies that boycott O&G companies passed the Texas Senate on Thursday. A committee substitute for SB …
April 14, 2021 — A bill was passed on Wednesday directing the Public Utility Commission of Texas to task ERCOT with the cost of ancillary services from intermittent resources such as wind and …
April 14, 2021 — Because a “major weather event that showed the flaws in our system,” state Sen. Kelly Hancock called for passage of his SB 2, which was indeed passed unanimously by …
April 14, 2021 — A bill that would create an authority to manage projects identified in US Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Texas and Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay studies has passed the …
April 14, 2021 — ERCOT says it’s electrical generation is “tight” again on Wednesday, following Tuesday’s request for power conservation. The grid operator said it does not expect to call for conservation on …
April 14, 2021 — District 9 Texas state Sen. Kelly Hancock, on the Senate floor, said Wednesday that renewable energy was part of the problem for Tuesday’s power generation deficit and continues to …
April 14, 2021 — In the Texas Senate, District 30 Sen. Drew Springer together with District 16 Sen. Nathan Johnson offered a large amendment to an energy company cleanup bill that brought some …
April 13, 2021 — ERCOT issued an alert just before 5 pm saying there is a possibility of emergency conditions tonight because of outages and high demand. ERCOT Vice President of Grid Planning …
By Alex Mills April 11, 2021 — The reaction to the global pandemic, Covid-19, has turned the social, economic and political world up-side-down during the past year as governments implemented lockdown of businesses, …
April 8, 2021 — Texas A&M researchers say they can listen to the sound of rocks crunching and breaking underground to create better, more precise data on fractures needed for fuel flow in …
April 8, 2021 — Marathon Oil Corporation has issued an irrevocable notice of its intention to fully redeem its currently outstanding $500 million aggregate principal amount of 2.8% Senior Notes Due 2022 in just a …
April 7, 2021 — LyondellBasell says Anthony Chase, the chairman and CEO of ChaseSource L.P., and Robert Dudley, former group chief executive and director of BP, have been nominated to stand for election to …
April 7, 2021 — The CFO of the former Texas Pacific Land Trust is stepping down at the end of next month. Robert Packer oversaw consistent growth with the trust over his ten-year …
April 6, 2021 — About 55% of Texans asked in a new survey said they are at least “somewhat” confident that the Texas Legislature will prevent disruption of energy delivery services in the …
April 4, 2021 — A Japanese company is buying into small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) company NuScale Power LLC, which is majority owned by Fluor Corp. The company, JGC Holdings Corp. of Japan, …
By Alex Mills Yes, it is true that the Biden administration will propose soon a tax increase on energy usage in the form of a carbon tax, and yes it is true that …