{"id":1914259,"date":"2023-04-13T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texans-could-see-utility-sticker-shock-from-gop-push-against-renewable-energy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T11:43:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:43:02","slug":"texans-could-see-utility-sticker-shock-from-gop-push-against-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texans-could-see-utility-sticker-shock-from-gop-push-against-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans could see utility sticker shock from GOP push against renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexans-could-see-utility-sticker-shock-from-gop-push-against-renewable-energy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1914259&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><br \/>\n<html><br \/>\n<body><\/p>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">N<\/span>ew bills being considered in Texas&#8217; legislature could shift the state&#8217;s power generation from natural gas to renewable energy, potentially leading to an increase in energy costs for customers, in addition to environmental consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The bills approved by the Texas Senate seek to increase the share of dispatchable sources of energy, such as natural gas, on the state&#8217;s power grid that can be quickly brought online in emergencies, and drive public funds&#8217; funnelling towards financing operations and repairs of fossil fuel plants for grid stability.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Governor Dan Patrick advocates for the legislation, arguing they are necessary to attract investment in natural gas projects and will help protect against threats like the 2021 winter storm Uri, which caused 4.5 million Texans to lose power.<\/p>\n<p>However, critics argue that the overhaul would hurt the state&#8217;s huge renewable energy industry, discouraging wind and solar project operators from investing in the state and ultimately raising prices for households. A study found that these bills entail higher power bills for consumers and could potentially drive up wholesale energy prices by over $22 billion between 2025 to 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Renewable energy has saved Texas consumers a lot of money in power bills, thanks in part to federal incentives. The shift to natural gas while investing billions in new fossil-fuel infrastructure will likely increase energy bills for Texans.<\/p>\n<p>Cyrus Reed, the conservation director of the Lone Star Sierra Club, expressed concern that these bills would create a chilling effect on renewable energy development and huge expenses on residential consumers that are not needed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New bills being considered in the Texas legislature that would shift the state\u2019s power generation away from renewable energy and back toward natural gas could also drive up energy costs for consumers living in the state, threatening price pain on top of environmental consequences. The bills, which were approved by the Texas Senate last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1914260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4486,6203,3688,22382,10530,24299,14211,10766],"class_list":["post-1914259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-energy","tag-gop","tag-push","tag-renewable","tag-shock","tag-sticker","tag-texans","tag-utility"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}