Texas is the second largest state by both area and population and has major expertise in the energy industry. Texas is in the south of the US, which allows it to generate plenty of solar electricity even in winter.

If the Texas Supreme Court over rules the decision of the Texas Court of Appeals, what precedent will be set across all energy markets?

The city council in Austin, Texas is on the verge of signing on to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT), a global campaign calling on countries to phase out fossil fuel production and help communities make the transition to a renewable energy economy.

Texas does little to regulate the inspection, maintenance and replacement of utility poles.

The Texas grid has repeatedly seen tight electricity supplies in the past year as extreme weather and surging power demand strain aging infrastructure.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas estimates that there is an almost 20% probability that the state grid will enter into an energy emergency alert, or EEA, if there is a repeat of last year’s December storm. Procuring 3,000 megawatts will cut that probability to less than 10%.

Texas residents have worried about extreme weather since a deadly storm in February 2021 left millions without power, water and heat for days as ERCOT struggled to prevent a grid collapse.

While that trails California’s 52%, Texas is a bigger market. It’s already No. 1 in wind, making it the largest clean energy market in the US.

While renewable power generation from wind and solar continues to capture much of the peak power demand in The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, demand for gas-fired cooling is also up.

The Texas power grid will be severely tested over the remainder of June as the summer’s first significant heat ridge sets up across the state.

As Texas plunged into darkness last month, its power markets turned to chaos. The financial repercussions of that chaos are becoming apparent now.

Believe it or not, the concept of reserve power is a foreign one in Texas. The bill passed with a caveat: any increase in costs could not exceed $1 billion annually.

Those essentials include power for natural gas wells, processing plants and compressor facilities, but Texas Energy Reliability Council Chairman James Cisarik said keeping natural gas flowing to power plants requires operational water, communication and transportation infrastructure.

"The entire energy sector failed Texas," said NRG Energy Inc Chief Executive Mauricio Gutierrez, who testified.

The National Weather Service on Feb. 1 issued winter storm warnings stretching from the Great Lakes to New Mexico and West Texas and either winter weather advisories or watches for hundreds of miles north and south of the winter storm warning areas.

The polar vortex which incapacitated much of the electric grid in Texas is gone, but the financial vortex is happening now in the state and will be around for years, if not decades.

This week, FERC and NERC published their Final Report on the the February 2021 cold weather event in Texas and the South Central United States.

The outlook in the Texas oil and gas sector remains negative as most companies expect low capital spending in 2016, the Dallas Federal Reserve said.

Estimates on the number of people who died due to the Texas winter storms and prolonged blackouts stand around 200.

Texas’s freewheeling electricity sector has flaws that were exposed during the deep freeze.