The Texas Tribune
by Jim Malewitz
With a deadline looming, Texas regulators are struggling to make up their minds about the finer points of the Ray L. Hunt family’s $18 billion proposal to buy and reshape Oncor, the state’s biggest electric utility.
The biggest remaining sticking point is this question: Should the Dallas-based oil family allow Oncor, under a new corporate structure, to collect hundreds of millions of ratepayer dollars — normally earmarked for federal taxes — that the company wouldn’t actually have to pay?
On Thursday, Public Utility Commissioner Brandy Marty Marquez said she was …