How the Texas Legislature could reform the state’s power grid this session

BY ERIN DOUGLAS AND MITCHELL FERMAN

Before this year’s legislative session ends Monday, the Texas House and Senate will need to hammer out differences in their respective proposals. The legislation is a response to February’s catastrophic power outages.

State lawmakers are close to passing sweeping legislation to overhaul the state’s power grid following the disastrous and deadly winter storm in February that left more than 4.8 million homes and businesses without electricity for days. More than 100 people died.

As time runs out in the legislative session, the Texas House and Senate will need to hammer out differences between the two chambers’ power grid proposals and quickly move the legislation in the coming days. The Tribune will update this post until the session ends. …