CPS CEO Rudy Garza answers questions during a San Antonio City Council special session on Nov. 30.

CPS Energy's Calaveras Power Station in San Antonio.

Green lights if a freeze protection circuit is working at one of the power generation units at CPS's Braunig Power Station.

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Rudy Garza, President and CEO of CPS Energy, speaks during a recent meeting with the San Antonio Express-News editorial board.

CPS Energy CEO Rudy Garza closed a deal on three natural gas power plants on Wednesday, is scrambling to build new transmission lines from South Texas and needs to hit San Antonio’s climate targets by 2030, all while providing affordable energy to America’s lowest-income major city.

In other words, the boss at one of the nation’s largest city-owned utilities must solve all the problems facing the Texas grid, only on a smaller scale.

“My job is to move us into the future in as quickly a manner as possible, but also affordably,” Garza told me at CPS’ headquarters.

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CPS is one of the few city-owned utilities left in Texas that operates every step, from the generator to the customer. San Antonio customers don’t have a choice of electricity provider, like other........

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