{"id":23466,"date":"2021-03-06T15:09:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T15:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=23466"},"modified":"2021-03-06T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T15:09:10","slug":"texas-opts-not-to-fix-16-billion-power-overcharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=23466","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Texas Opts Not to Fix $16 Billion Power Overcharge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/texas-opts-not-to-fix-16-billion-power-overcharge-11614965291\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>: &#8220;The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Friday signaled it didn\u2019t intend to reverse $16 billion in electric overcharges that an independent market monitor had flagged as stemming from the state\u2019s weeklong blackouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commission Chairman Arthur C. D\u2019Andrea said it was too difficult to reprice the energy markets and involved too many uncertainties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is impossible to unscramble this sort of egg,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. D\u2019Andrea said there were so many hedges and private transactions outside the view of the commission that taking a step designed to help consumers might have unintended consequences. \u201cYou think you\u2019re protecting the consumer and it turns out you\u2019re bankrupting a co-op or a city,\u201d he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal: &#8220;The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Friday signaled it didn\u2019t intend to reverse $16 billion in electric overcharges that an independent market monitor had flagged as stemming from the state\u2019s weeklong blackouts. Commission Chairman Arthur C. D\u2019Andrea said it was too difficult to reprice the energy markets and involved too many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23467,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23466\/revisions\/23467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}