{"id":402897,"date":"2021-03-03T12:06:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T06:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402897"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:14:30","slug":"texas-utility-files-for-bankruptcy-after-2-1-billion-power-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/texas-utility-files-for-bankruptcy-after-2-1-billion-power-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas utility files for bankruptcy after $2.1 billion power bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest electricity co-operative in Texas has filed for bankruptcy protection after it received a $2.1 billion bill from the state&#8217;s grid operator following last month&#8217;s winter storm that left millions without power.<\/p>\n<p>Bitterly cold weather in mid-February left millions without electricity across Texas as the Arctic conditions overwhelmed local utility companies ill-prepared for such weather.<\/p>\n<p>Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, which supplies 16 co-op members serving more than 1.5 million Texans, said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday after receiving &#8220;excessively high invoices&#8221; from the state grid operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest electricity co-operative in Texas has filed for bankruptcy protection after it received a $2.1 billion bill from the state&#8217;s grid operator following last month&#8217;s winter storm that left millions without power. Bitterly cold weather in mid-February left millions without electricity across Texas as the Arctic conditions overwhelmed local utility companies ill-prepared for such weather. Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, which supplies 16 co-op members serving more than 1.5 million Texans, said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday after receiving &#8220;excessively high invoices&#8221; from the state grid operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}