US power line tensions rise over green energy surge ft.com/content/174214… via @financialtimes

Texas' ERCOT dispatches power to utilities and isn't a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU). But its financial clearinghouse is under severe strain - ft.com/content/0e7462… via @financialtimes Justin Jacobs

For late risers, our story about the credit crisis unfolding after the power crisis in Texas's Ercot electric market -- ft.com/content/0e7462… via @financialtimes Justin Jacobs

Update: The Texas PUC today directed ERCOT to use "discretion" on deadlines for settlements, collateral and payments to generators, while allowing retail customers to delay paying bills: puc.texas.gov/agency/resourc…

Power market credit crisis looms as Texas bills come due on.ft.com/3qSSBUx

Besides winter storm loss, Vistra paused a solar project announced in a clean-energy "pivot" 5 months ago >> Vistra takes $1bn hit from Texas freeze ft.com/content/6a2490… via @financialtimes

"Ensuring that there’s sufficient transmission to support the growing fleet of renewable resources will be priority 1," FERC commissioner and ex-chair Neil Chatterjee opines at Pecan Street Inc. event today.

Banking cameo with Gregory Meyer Bank of America reaps trading windfall during Texas blackouts ft.com/content/321c4f… via @financialtimes

Fine Russell Gold story here on blackout fallout for Texas wind farms. wsj.com/articles/wind-… via The Wall Street Journal

Financing for Texas wind power in disarray after winter storm ft.com/content/00036c… via @financialtimes FT Energy

US state capitols are setting up obstacles to Biden's clean energy agenda ft.com/content/ee2723… via @financialtimes FT Energy

Vast majority of companies sponsoring #BeijingOlympics or US team silent on whether rethinking plans over persecution of #Uyghurs in Xinjiang on.ft.com/3xSm7xm

Will Biden reverse Trump’s steel tariffs. Play well in Indiana, Ohio and Pa? Have union backing. US steel consumers face large premium. Stimulus may help to ease pain in steel. EU action on China’s excess capacity would be good. Great frm Aime Williams ft.com/content/d13ada…

China’s import appetite raises prospects in US farm belt ft.com/content/e6dec6… by Aime Williams via @financialtimes

Travelling through fossil fuel-dependent communities, Derek Brower met Americans resisting an energy transition, while others battle to speed its progress on.ft.com/3q1HQzu

Oil and gas pipeline cos have spent the past decade in a series of pitched battles with environmentalists over the future of fossil fuels. But they've been grappling with the energy transition's implications. Many now spy a big opportunity in new CO2 pipes ft.com/content/e06e00…

Why is Blackstone paying billions of dollars to own rent-controlled apartments? This is the story of the US government's biggest subsidized housing program – and the financiers it made rich ft.com/content/3a60c1…

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US-China gas deals defy tensions between world powers - on.ft.com/3FfiDs8 via Financial Times