Atmos Energy sent out bills with incorrect past due amounts, but is fixing the problem. ________________________________________________ Some Atmos customers received unwelcome surprises in their natural gas bills this month — unexpected past due amounts. The charges,...
This year’s legislative appropriations will allow the Texas Railroad Commission to hire 50 new pipeline safety professionals. ________________________________________________ The Texas Railroad Commission will receive approximately $481 million over the next two...
Atmos described one recent scam as “an ongoing Search Engine Phishing operation” under which con artists use search-engine optimization techniques to promote bogus websites. ________________________________________________ Cybercriminals have created fake company...
The utility seeks to increase rates annually by $119.4 million on a systemwide basis. The proposed change would increase APT’s total aggregate revenues by more than 2.5 percent, ________________________________________________ Atmos Pipeline Texas (“APT”) has filed a...
HB 2264 adds a new subsection of the Gas Utility Regulatory Act that will allow retail gas distribution systems to create energy conservation programs. ________________________________________________ Below we describe the final outcomes of some of the major bills...
The Senate version of SB 30 would allocate tax dollars to retire securitization debt from excess fuel charges incurred by gas utility ratepayers during Winter Storm Uri. ________________________________________________ More than 300 bills have been filed during the...
One of the most important municipal coalitions currently active in gas ratemaking is the Atmos Cities Steering Committee, an organization of over 150 cities in north and central Texas with nearly 1.2 million residential customers.