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The board overseeing the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the independent nonprofit entity that operates and manages the electricity grid that covers much of Texas, named former executive Brad Jones on Tuesday to be interim president and CEO.
Abbott aide was at ERCOT storm meeting Jay Root, Houston Chronicle FacebookTwitterEmail Workers in in the control room of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates most of the state's power grid, must keep a balance between electric generation and demand to prevent transmission lines from overloading.Staff file photo Texas Gov. Greg Abbott dispatched a top aide to the ERCOT operations center on the night the grid operator made the controversial decision to leave electricity prices at maximum levels — a move blamed for creating a multibillion-dollar mess. Abbott has squarely...
FacebookTwitterEmail Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the state capitol concerning the latest developments statewide in the coronavirus issue on March. 13, 2020.Tom Reel, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographer Texas Gov. Greg Abbott dispatched a top aide to the ERCOT operations center on the night the grid operator made the controversial decision to leave electricity prices at maximum levels — a move blamed for creating a multi-billion dollar mess. Abbott has squarely placed the blame for the blackout boondoggle on ERCOT, which operates the power grid, and called for its CEO to resign ...
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Opinion Grieving parents say the (p)UC needs to be a regulator, not an enabler of electric utilities The couple led a push for a new law regulating high-voltage transmission lines, then watched as nobody did anything about this new safety requirement. Will Brannon of Hallsville, Texas, died in 2017 when he was 17 in a sailing accident. His mast hit a sagging power line. He and two fellow Boy Scouts were electrocuted. Will's parents, Stan and Michelle. shown here with Will, led a fight to get a new law passed, and it did. But then they say the PUC ignored it.(Courtesy of Brannon family)
Yes, Overreliance On Wind And Solar Helped Feed Texas’s Power Outages Share This storyline also claimed a lack of electricity from wind and solar had nothing to do with the disaster that claimed 111 lives. Instead, the blackouts were the failure of normally reliable thermal power—natural gas, coal, and nuclear—due to a reluctance to spend billions of dollars to winterize facilities throughout a state more known for persistently hot summers than for transient polar vortices. A variant of this liberal argument was posited by Pedro Gonzalez at American Greatness. The headline echoed the c...