{"id":1935695,"date":"2023-05-22T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T00:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-house-passes-bill-to-curb-renewable-energy-growth\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T20:51:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T00:51:16","slug":"texas-house-passes-bill-to-curb-renewable-energy-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-house-passes-bill-to-curb-renewable-energy-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas House approves bill to limit renewable energy expansion."},"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\">18<\/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%2Ftexas-house-passes-bill-to-curb-renewable-energy-growth%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=1935695&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--><h2>Texas House Approves Legislation to Boost Coal and Natural Gas Power<\/h2>\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p>Texas Republican House lawmakers have approved legislation aimed at increasing grid reliability by boosting coal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-americans-fed-up-with-crime-and-other-commentary\/\" title=\"NY Post Editorial Board: Americans Fed up With Crime and Other Commentary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-video-links-biden-to-ukrainian-corruption-burisma-indictment-reveals-ex-president-yanukovich-illegally-obtained-7-4-billion-laundered-thru-fund-close-to-us-democratic-party\/\" title=\"New Video Links Biden to Ukrainian Corruption \u2013 Burisma Indictment Reveals Ex-President Yanukovich Illegally Obtained .4 Billion Laundered Thru Fund \u201cClose to US Democratic Party\u201d\">natural gas<\/a> power<\/a>. Critics argue that the legislation will harm the state&#8217;s leading renewable energy sector and drive up consumer costs. The bill, SB 7, cleared the House on Monday evening in a 119-21 vote. An earlier version of the legislation cleared the Texas Senate last month, but the version that advanced in the House was amended slightly. <\/p>\n<h3>Details<\/h3>\n<p>The legislation is aimed at paying incumbent generators on the Texas grid more money so long as they can guarantee dispatchable sources of energy, such as natural gas or other fossil fuels. Proponents say the legislation will increase reliability by rewarding power sources that can come online within two hours and run for at least four hours. The legislation is part of a Republican-led effort in the state to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-house-passes-bill-to-curb-renewable-energy-growth\/\" title=\"Texas House approves bill to limit renewable energy expansion.\">add additional gas-powered generation<\/a> to the grid following Winter Storm Uri, the 2021 storm that caused 4.5 million Texans to lose power and resulted in 246 deaths. <\/p>\n<p>Critics have said the legislation, if passed, would move energy markets in the wrong direction. Last year, Texas generated 180,145 gigawatt-hours of electricity from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-urged-to-denounce-uns-alarmist-climate-change-report\/\" title=\"GOP Urged to Denounce UN's Alarmist Climate Change Report\">carbon-free sources<\/a>, according to the Energy Information Administration, by far the highest source of carbon-free energy in the country. <\/p>\n<h3>Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>A coalition of industry, consumer, and environmental groups outlined their concerns about the pending legislation in a letter sent in March to the chairman of the state Senate\u2019s Business and Commerce Committee. The group called for Texas lawmakers to eliminate the grid &#8220;firming\u201d obligations, or provisions that require renewable plants to add a backup source of power, from its proposals to allow for nondiscriminatory technology-neutral products and services to be added to the grid and to consider all factors that can cause reliability concerns when sizing a product or service on the grid. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe, if incorporated, these consumer-focused and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-invasion-sanctions-will-see-russian-economy-shrink-by-35-percent-jp-morgan\/\" title=\"Ukraine Invasion Sanctions Will See Russian Economy Shrink by 35 Percent: JP Morgan\">market-driven principles<\/a> will increase both the reliability and affordability of energy in ERCOT,\u201d the Advanced Power Alliance, the Texas Solar Power Association, American Clean Power Association, Solar Energy Industries Association, and Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation said in the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republican House lawmakers passed SB 7, a bill to enhance coal and natural gas power for grid reliability. Critics claim it will harm the state&#8217;s renewable energy sector and raise consumer expenses. The legislation was approved in a 119-21 vote. It aims to compensate existing generators on the grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1935696,"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":[538],"tags":[4255,4486,12432,3653,6612,22382,3694],"class_list":["post-1935695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-approves","tag-energy","tag-expansion","tag-house","tag-limit","tag-renewable","tag-texas"],"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\/1935695","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=1935695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}