Senate panel considers new plan to incentivize power plant construction

The Senate Business and Commerce Committee considered another plan to add more power plants to the state's deregulated electric grid. The Senate has already approved a bill to incentivize the construction of 10,000 megawatts worth of emergency back-up power plants in the form of SB 6, but that bill has yet to be scheduled for a hearing in the House. With time running out in the session, the commit…