Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF)

In a memo dated 8/6/26 Gleeson wrote regarding Docket 59315: “Ultimately, I believe the ALJs misinterpreted the requirements in our rule. The plain language of the rule only requires that a utility hold at least one public meeting prior to filing its application. Oncor satisfied this requirement by holding at least one public meeting and mailing notice of the public meetings to landowners within 500 feet of the centerline of the transmission facilities as the project existed at the time. Oncor's actions were consistent with Commission precedent. In past CCN licensing cases, the Commission has found that utilities satisfied the public meeting requirement by sending notice to landowners within 500 feet of the preliminary links presented at the public meeting-even where the utility subsequently added or modified links after the public meeting.” Let me decipher this for you. Basically ONCOR doesn’t have to afford every impacted landowner a public meeting because the PUC makes the rules to benefit the TSPs not Texans. The @PUCTX has the worst case of regulatory capture and cowardice I’ve ever seen. They side with Cali-based Sempra and to hell with Texans. #txlege