"Power Companies Get Exactly What They Want": How Texas Repeatedly Failed to Protect Its Power Grid Against Extreme Weather.

Autor: Schwartz, Jeremy, Collier, Kiah, Davila, Vianna
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Zdroj: Pro Publica; Feb2021, p1-13, 13p, 5 Color Photographs, 1 Map
Abstrakt: In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas' largest electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. In 2012, when Turner was still a state representative, he wrote a letter to the then-chairman of the House State Affairs Committee, raising concerns about PUC rule changes that increased the price caps companies could charge for power to $9,000 per megawatt hour. "Too often, power companies get exactly what they want out of the PUC", said Tim Morstad, associate director of AARP Texas. [Extracted from the article]
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