Lower Colorado River Authority
LCRA exists to serve the people of Texas. It’s been that way since the state Legislature created us in 1934. We continue that legacy today by providing a multitude of vital services to our customers and communities. Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of the Texans we serve through water stewardship, energy and community service. LCRA produces and delivers electric power, manages the lower Colorado River and provides a reliable water supply, manages a public parks system and supports community development. We are funded by revenue we generate, the vast majority of which comes from generating and transmitting electricity. A very small portion of our revenue comes from selling water. We do not receive state appropriations or have the ability to levy taxes. We have deep roots in Texas, dating as far back as the Great Depression of the 1930s. We built the chain of dams that tamed the Colorado River and brought power to rural Central Texas for the first time.www.lcra.org
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Oct 21, 2026
Rafael AnchiaGUEST
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Rafael AnchiaGUEST
Oncor or LCRA, AEP, you have to install grid enhancing technology in your existing system, right? 'Cause right now, the way the incentives work, and I'll use my hometown friends here at Oncor, they get a thing called a certificate of convenience and necessity, which is basically a little monopoly to build out one of these import path, one of these corridors.
Rafael AnchiaGUEST
And they love that 'cause that's new revenue beyond their current system, and this certificate of convenience and necessity does not require them to go before the public and try to make a rate case.
Rafael AnchiaGUEST
It's like, build it-
Bob ColeHOST
Do you design these? Don't you have something to do with these, like, I don't know, distribution substations and all?
J.R.AUDIENCE
Yeah, I mean, right now I'm in the Encore substation, but I worked for LCRA for a lot of years, and I went from concrete all the way into relay and control engineering for
Bob ColeHOST
them, so...
J.R.AUDIENCE
Anyways, I'm in the high-powered world where it can hurt you pretty good for the voltage that's out here.
Bob ColeHOST
And that's CVS and that's 7-Eleven.
Bob ColeHOST
And actually, all that land on that is the LCRA headquarters, and then there's Oyster's Landing over there with Mozart's and Hula Hut.
Bob ColeHOST
And, of course, I mentioned that graduate student housing.
Bob ColeHOST
And then there's the big old golf course.
John DavidsonHOST
Yeah.
Rebecca DeeringGUEST
And so, um, understanding deep water versus coves, um, understanding docks, and then, you know, there's just a bunch of other, like, things like the LCRA and your sewer systems and all of that.
Rebecca DeeringGUEST
So, like, there's a lot of st- you can't just go help somebody buy a lake property on, like-
John DavidsonHOST
Right
speaker_0HOST
Scheduling conflicts hamper GCPA's fall conference.
speaker_0HOST
The CEOs and five staff members from ERCOT, the Texas PUC, the Texas Office of the Public Utility Council, and Lower Colorado River Authority all had scheduling conflicts, according to the Gulf Coast Power Association, and were unable to participate in the fall seminar.
speaker_1HOST
MISO tries different tack for PRMR allocation, decides on forecasting approach.
speaker_1HOST
MISO announced it's abandoning a plan to use settled load to divide its resource planning obligations among its load-serving entities, moving instead to a forecasting approach it once vowed not to use.
Todd JeffriesHOST
If you live in that area along that river, you should be aware of this with the forecast and the rain and now more water coming downstream.
Patrick OsbornHOST
Yeah, LCRA, one floodgate right now at Starkey, and then they're expecting to open another one at Wurtz later on this morning to let the water pass down from Llano River.
Patrick OsbornHOST
And the Llano River actually is expected to crest early this morning, about 12 feet, moderate flood stage.
Patrick OsbornHOST
So, you know, definitely take it easy as you're out there and watch for any water going over the roadways.
Todd JeffriesHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Todd JeffriesHOST
So the city went to the LCRA looking for a workaround, but every option fell apart.
Todd JeffriesHOST
A December to mid-January slot collided with the holidays.
Todd JeffriesHOST
Heck, Mozart's down there.
Don PryorHOST
deal.
Todd JeffriesHOST
It's a huge deal.
Todd JeffriesHOST
But anyway, in January, the February drawdown, that's off the table because the LCRA stopped doing that during those months since the winter storm Yuri.
Todd JeffriesHOST
They're concerned about keeping the hydroelectric power available to the grid.