Texas created a $7.2B fund for gas plants. Hardly any are being built.

Published on September 2, 2025

This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune. When Texas legislators conceived of the Texas Energy Fund in the spring of 2023, its goal of jump-starting the construction of more natural gas power plants to support the state’s strained power grid seemed reasonable. In the two years since that vote,…

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