Houston Chronicle by Jeremy Blackman 2/18/2021
Gov. Greg Abbott issued a stiff rebuke Thursday of the Texas energy grid manager and called on lawmakers to mandate that power plants be better prepared for the kind of extreme cold that led to mass outages this week across the state.
“Texans deserve answers for why these shortfalls occurred and how they are going to be corrected,†he said in a news conference, calling out the Energy Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, which oversees the state’s electricity supply.
The remarks were some of the strongest to date from the Republican leader, and suggest that state lawmakers could follow through this year on findings a decade ago by federal authorities that plants were not equipped to handle frigid conditions.
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