The culprit is deregulation—not just in Texas and not just in electricity.
electric utilities
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Frozen: Natural Disaster, Energy Choices, and Inhuman Responses in Texas
The Lone Star State is in free fall, pointing fingers everywhere else.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
When Going Green Collides With the Free Market
Texas’s chaotic, deregulated energy market was key to Georgetown’s claim to be the nation’s renewable-energy leader. It’s also the reason their project backfired.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
JPMorgan Concedes It’s Trying to Buy an Electric Utility
The bank had denied for months that it was behind the sale of El Paso Electric.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Ridiculous D.C. Invite of the Week: Leadership Lessons from PG&E’s Former CEO
Geisha Williams will speak at the Bob and Elizabeth Dole Leadership Series.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Warren Buffett Is Not the Answer to California’s Energy Grid Problems
Governor Gavin Newsom has floated that America’s billionaire should buy PG&E. Here’s why that’s a bad idea.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Private Utility Companies Keep Merging and Merging
A reported deal between PPL and Avangrid would create an East Coast energy giant with over 13 million customers. That could be bad for ratepayers, and the climate.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
JPMorgan Gets Back Into the Electricity Business
An El Paso, Texas, electric utility is being purchased by an investment fund with deep, undisclosed ties to the big bank.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
San Francisco Makes a Charge Toward Public Power
The city’s bid to take over PG&E could mark a turning point in restoring a more environmentally and economically just power grid.
