Averting crisis: Path to weatherize Texas power plants and some gas wells set under compromise bill

AUSTIN — Texas would require weatherization of electrical generating plants and some natural gas wells and related pipelines and compressors under a compromise bill that House leaders unveiled Tuesday.

But in a concession to the oil and gas industry, a revised omnibus electricity measure would reduce how many natural gas facilities must be upgraded.

A newly created interagency “supply chain security and mapping committee” would identify which chunks of the natural gas industry actually feed power generators – and only those would …