Developers Foot 100% of the Wire. Ratepayers Get the Discount.

Abbott's cost-shift order lands as 75 projects worth $130 billion stalled nationally in Q1, with New York freezing permits outright and North Carolina moving to ban evaporative cooling. Texas picked pricing over prohibition, and the developers who shape the PUCT rulemaking over the next five weeks will write the cost-allocation formulas every competitor inherits.