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City Council approved gas rate actions

El PasoJun 8, 20262 min read

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City Council denied Texas Gas Service’s interim rate adjustment request and approved several legal steps to challenge or intervene in utility rate cases affecting El Paso ratepayers.

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Council took action on several gas and electricity utility matters during the work session. It denied Texas Gas Service’s interim gas rate adjustment request and authorized the City Attorney to handle related settlement and intervention steps. Council also authorized interventions in utility filings tied to power and distribution cost recovery factors and in El Paso Electric’s request related to the Copperhead and Black Mountain solar and battery storage facilities. The minutes do not show any other major policy decisions from this meeting.

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Denied Texas Gas Service’s Test Year 2025 Gas Reliability Infrastructure Program interim rate adjustment request for the incorporated areas of Texas Gas Service.
Authorized the City Attorney, in consultation with the City Manager, to approve a settlement in a severed Texas Gas Service rate case expense matter.
Authorized the City Attorney to file interventions in purchased power capacity cost recovery factor filings and distribution cost recovery factor filings affecting El Paso utility ratepayers.
Authorized the City Attorney to hire outside counsel and consultants needed for those utility interventions.
Authorized an intervention in El Paso Electric’s application to amend its certificate of convenience and necessity for the Copperhead and Black Mountain solar and battery storage facilities.

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City Council Work Session

Jun 8, 2026, 3:00 PMCOUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL, 300 N. CAMPBELL AND VIRTUALLYcompleted

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Teleconference phone number 1-915-213-4096 Toll free number: 1-833-664-9267 Conference ID: 570-511-27#
Notice is hereby given that a Work Session of the City Council of the City of El Paso will be conducted on June 8, 2026 at 9:00 A.M. Members of the public may view the meeting via the following means: Via the City’s website. http://www.elpasotexas.gov/videos Via television on City15, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cityofelpasotx/videos
Attention: The Council will take a lunch break at approximately 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. unless otherwise decided by the Council.
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AGENDA
EXECUTIVE SESSION
The City Council of the City of El Paso may retire into EXECUTIVE SESSION pursuant to Section 3.5A of the El Paso City Charter and the Texas Government Code, Chapter 551, Subchapter D, to discuss any of the following: (The items listed below are matters of the sort routinely discussed in Executive Session, but the City Council of the City of El Paso may move to Executive Session any of the items on this agenda, consistent with the terms of the Open Meetings Act and the Rules of City Council.) The City Council will return to open session to take any final action and may also, at any time during the meeting, bring forward any of the following items for public discussion, as appropriate.
Section 551.071 CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY Section 551.072 DELIBERATION REGARDING REAL PROPERTY Section 551.073 DELIBERATION REGARDING PROSPECTIVE GIFTS Section 551.074 PERSONNEL MATTERS Section 551.076 DELIBERATION REGARDING SECURITY DEVICES OR SECURITY AUDITS Section 551.087 DELIBERATION REGARDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS Section 551.089 DELIBERATION REGARDING SECURITY DEVICES OR SECURITY AUDITS; CLOSED MEETING
Discussion and action on the following:
Texas Gas Service, a Division of ONE Gas, Inc.'s Test Year 2025 Gas Reliability Infrastructure Program Interim Rate Adjustment for the Incorporated Areas of Texas Gas Service - PUC#OS-26-00030734; HQ#UTILITY-78 (551.071)
Rate Case Severed from Statement of Intent of Texas Gas Service Company, a Division of ONE Gas, Inc., to Change Gas Utility Rates Within the Unincorporated Areas of the Central-Gulf, West North, and Rio Grande Valley Service Areas, OS-25-00029224, HQ UTILITY-85 (551.071)
Distribution Cost Recovery Factors and Power Cost Recovery Factors; HQ Utility-89 (551.071)
Application of El Paso Electric Company to Amend Its Certificate of Convenience and Necessity to Include the Copperhead and Black Mountain Solar and Battery Storage Facilities, PUC#59690, HQ UTILITY-86 (551.071)
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ALL REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AGENDAS ARE PLACED ON THE INTERNET TUESDAY PRIOR TO THE MEETING AT THE ADDRESS BELOW:
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Distribution Cost Recovery Factors and Power Cost Recovery Factors; HQ Utility-89 (551.071)

City Council approved gas rate actions

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