The Texas Tribune
by Jim Malewitz
Experts at the Public Utility Commission of Texas are urging its three commissioners to reject plans by a Dallas oilman and real estate tycoon to take over the state’s largest electric transmission company, a recommendation that could loom large for Texas’ ratepayers and electric grid.
“The proposed transaction is not in the public interest and I recommend that the Commission reject the Applicants’ application,” Darryl Tietjen, who oversees rate regulation for the agency, wrote in …