{"id":17690,"date":"2025-05-09T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17690"},"modified":"2025-05-09T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:30:02","slug":"texas-lawmakers-want-to-use-police-power-of-the-state-to-halt-renewable-energy-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17690","title":{"rendered":"Texas Lawmakers Want To Use &#8216;Police Power&#8217; of the State To Halt Renewable Energy Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Texas generates the most renewable energy in the nation. Three Republican bills being advanced by the state legislature could halt Texas&#8217; green energy progress and give fossil fuels a leg up in the state&#8217;s energy market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Bill 388, which has passed the state Senate, would require at least 50 percent of power generation installed after January 1, 2026, to come from &#8220;dispatchable&#8221; energy sources, which include natural gas, nuclear power, and coal. This bill effectively subsidizes fossil fuel projects by requiring utility providers to purchase power generation credits from dispatchable energy sources.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A report from Aurora Energy Research estimates that this bill would add $5.2 billion to Texas power prices over the next decade; residents could pay an extra $200 per year in energy costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Using the &#8220;police power&#8221; of the state ignores what regulators and the market are saying: Texas needs every energy source to meet future demand. That includes renewables.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/02\/texas-lawmakers-want-to-use-police-power-of-the-state-to-halt-renewable-energy-projects\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/02\/texas-lawmakers-want-to-use-police-power-of-the-state-to-halt-renewable-energy-projects<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Texas generates the most renewable energy in the nation. Three Republican bills being advanced by the state legislature could halt Texas&#8217; green energy progress and give fossil fuels a leg up in the state&#8217;s energy market.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 388, which has passed the state Senate, would require at least 50 percent of power generation installed after January 1, 2026, to come from &#8220;dispatchable&#8221; energy sources, which include natural gas, nuclear power, and coal. This bill effectively subsidizes fossil fuel projects by requiring utility providers to purchase power generation credits from dispatchable energy sources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A report from Aurora Energy Research estimates that this bill would add $5.2 billion to Texas power prices over the next decade; residents could pay an extra $200 per year in energy costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Using the &#8220;police power&#8221; of the state ignores what regulators and the market are saying: Texas needs every energy source to meet future demand. That includes renewables.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/02\/texas-lawmakers-want-to-use-police-power-of-the-state-to-halt-renewable-energy-projects\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[913,235,233,1469,1247,1058,21,1059],"class_list":["post-17690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-government-intervention","tag-infrastructure","tag-solar-energy","tag-texas","tag-wind-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17691,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17690\/revisions\/17691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}