Investment expert: Undoing ERCOT overcharges would hurt Texas' business reputation
Austin American-Statesman (TX)
Texas would damage its business-friendly reputation if state lawmakers retroactively lower prices for wholesale electricity to reverse billions of dollars in overcharges racked up during last month's weather emergency, a representative of an international investment exchange said Tuesday.
"Any such decision by this political process will forever define the 'open for business' culture
Texas has worked diligently for decades to create," said
Chris Edmonds, global head of clearing and risk at
Intercontinental Exchange Inc.
Edmonds, speaking to the
House State Affairs committee, said the repercussions will go beyond the market for wholesale electricity by rattling investors in other