What are other Texas utilities up to? Texas is famously "off the grid" in the sense that it is its own place as far as electricity generation and consumption are concerned. Where does conservation fit into the Texas scheme? Peaking power? Seems like a great opportunity wasted....to enrich a few utility executives. The state government seems to be in the thrall of a bent version of a free-market ideology. Don't they know the carbon dioxide they release in Corpus Christi just ends up in New York City (with apologies to Tom Lehrer)?

... in TX are also planning on building coal-fired plants, but TXU is the major offender: it's going to build 11, while other utilities will build around 6.

Conservation does not fit anywhere into the state's plans.