Chamber

Here’s the opening line by the Texas Chamber of Commerce in anybids to lure West Coast business: by this summer, the completionand continued construction of new generation plants in Texas willcreate an electricity supply about 23% higher than peak demand.

The California Chamber of Commerce and the state’s BusinessRoundtable have urged the California Public Utilities Commission(CPUC) to “allow retail rates to at least moderately reflectwholesale rates,” in order to keep the state’s utilities inbusiness and assure “the lights will stay on.”