Mitchell Schnurman of The Dallas Morning News reports on Texas’ competitive electricity market.
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- Electricity competition in Texas has been largely beneficial to the state’s economy, consumers, and the environment.
- Since Winter Storm Uri hit the state last year, regulators in Texas have debated implementing a capacity market that would force generators to produce excess energy in case of grid failures, potentially increasing costs on consumers and leading to governments picking energy winners and losers.
- Texas can continue to provide affordable and reliable energy by keeping its competitive electricity market framework.
“While Texas’ competitive market has been ‘remarkably successful,’ said Michael Jewell, a longtime Austin energy lawyer, some lawmakers asked whether the competitive approach should be abandoned in favor of a more regulated model.
‘And the answer, again and again, was no — this was not a market design problem, it was an operational problem,’ Jewell said.”
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