Where is The Texas Energy Planning Council?

In late November 2003, Governor Perry signed for the initiation of a Government body that would keep a check on every energy need in Texas called the Texas Energy Planning Council. This was a great initiative as was recognized at that time mainly because the council was supposed to be a step towards creating efficient energy resources, cleaner energy technologies and to keep Texas ahead of any other state or country in terms of energy production or energy regulation.

The council's birth was actually a good step in this direction because deregulation in 2002 had anyways led to a major competitive force of energy companies flocking Texas like anything. There are hundreds of retail energy providers, energy consultants and energy brokers right now in Texas. A governing body that could help Texas utilize the resources to a maximum was actually necessary and this happened by the launch of TEPC.

One of the key roles of TEPC was also to check the gaps between the energy demand and supply in Texas. The last Texas Energy Plan that we see anywhere on the internet was in 2005 by Victor Carrillo, the Chairman of the Railroad commission of Texas and also of the TEPC. But after 2005, there seems to be no news of TEPC anywhere on the internet. Even the TEPC pages on the TEPC website is updated only till Dec 2004. I wonder if they have disappeared into thin air!