Texas is the nation’s largest energy producer, leading other U.S. states in both natural gas production and renewable energy generation, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration , an independent federal agency.

Yet as people, businesses and data centers continue to move to the state, Texas leaders need to harness new strategies to make energy more affordable and ensure the state power grid remains reliable, experts said at the Texas Energy Summit , which ran from Nov. 4-6 in Austin.

“We [need to] have a resilient grid for all the extreme weather we're seeing,” Courtney Hjaltman, a commissioner on the Public Utility Commission of Texas , said during a Nov. 5 panel at the summit. “We need to have a resilient grid that deals with cyber attacks and terroris

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