Atmos outages raise transparency concerns in Texas’ natural gas industry

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AUSTIN – As questions continue to swirl about widespread outages Atmos Energy customers experienced in North Texas and beyond last week, the opacity of Texas’...

A proposal for more transparency in Texas’ natural gas industry has already faced pushback from some state lawmakers.

“We need it fixed,” Jensen said. “We’ve got to fix it to where we don’t lose gas when it’s something like this. We need to have better systems in place to let us know better.” “Despite those preparations, last week, we fell short for some of our customers who experienced interruptions in their natural gas service,” the statement said. “That is not acceptable. And though we worked to restore service as quickly and safely as possible, we apologize for that service disruption.”No real-time natural gas information

ERCOT’s former interim CEO Brad Jones proposed creating a “gas desk’' after he took the reins of the power grid operator following the dismissal of most of its leadership in the aftermath of the February 2021 deadly winter storm that killed more than 200 Texans.

 

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