Texas lawmakers are weighing new bills that would shift the state’s power generation away from renewables and toward natural gas, threatening its status as a wind and solar energy powerhouse and potentially driving up costs for consumers.
The Texas Senate advanced two bills, S.B. 6 and S.B. 7, on Wednesday aimed at funneling more money to natural gas and other sources of energy generation deemed dispatchable, meaning that they can be brought online at need, in an effort to firm up the power grid and ameliorate reliability concerns.
Both will now be considered by the Texas House, where lawmakers have nearly eight weeks to debate them. “I think that some people would posit the choice as ‘either or’ — either you're going to get dispatchable generation, or you're going to get non-dispatchable generation. I would argue that it is an ‘and,’ and we need both,” Michael Jewell, an attorney and advisory board member for the Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation, said in an interview.
"The approach that we are saying now bears no resemblance to how Texas used to operate," he said."There has been a significant shift in the attitude towards renewables." The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and North American Electric Reliability Corporation said in a November 2021 joint analysis of the disaster that 58% of the plants that failed or struggled during Uri were natural gas-fired.
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