HB 3356 and SB 715 will raise power bills and lower reliability, all while pretending to be a fix. This proposal is expensive, inefficient & would lead to retirements of existing generation. The bill acknowledges "net increased cost to consumers." Who would pay for that? #txlege

Here’s what HB 3356 would actually do: • Increase odds of rolling blackouts • Raise costs for consumers • Undercut investment • Introduce massive regulatory uncertainty • Retroactively change the rules for existing generators • Cause a wave of generation retirements

Gas was the biggest failure during Uri. UT & FERC/NERC reports found: • Permian gas output dropped 40% before the power went out • ERCOT lost 30 GW of thermal, 2x its worst-case scenario Rep Patterson misdiagnoses the problem and thus gets the "cure" wrong, too.

Find a full breakdown of HB 3356 on YouTube: The video includes: • what the bill would actually do • why it’s likely unconstitutional • how it would raise costs for consumers • what really caused the Winter Storm Uri outages.

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A 'fix' that jacks up costs and tanks reliability? This is why real, innovative solutions should power our future, not policies that promise the moon but deliver a blackout. Let's focus on consumer-friendly energy strategies!

@LaceyHullTx - please pay attention to this. We need to strengthen, not damage the grid

Sounds like this bill seeks to make intermittent resources (W/S) reliable by requiring them to pay dispatchable resources (gas/coal) to back them up. This may work fine, but Ercot bidding would need to allow for recovery of fixed cost of backup Payments.