Greg Abbott: ‘No words can fix’ devastation Texans went through last week. State will speak through actions
The governor’s televised speech came hours after overseers of the state’s electricity grid heard a harrowing account of how the system avoided an even worse disaster. For those of you still hurting, I want you to know that the state is using every resource to fix this problem, Gov. Greg Abbott said of Texans suffering from power and water outages as a result of last week s bitter cold weather. In photo, residents of Villas Del Solamar Apartments who d been without water for a week waited to fill buckets Monday at a fire hydrant on Park Lane in Dallas.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
Sally Talberg, former chair of the Michigan Public Service Commission, has resigned from the board of ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, in the wake of a devastating collapse of the electric grid that provided power to more than 26 million customers.
Talberg, an unaffiliated…
Climate advocates insist it wasn t the wind.
In a Tuesday letter to their fellow board members there are 16 in total Chairwoman Sally Talberg and vice-chairman Peter Cramton, Terry Bulger and Raymond Hepper wrote that their hearts go out to all Texans who had to go without electricity, heat, water and face the tragic consequences of this emergency. We have noted recent concerns about out-of-state board leadership at ERCOT. To allow state leaders a free hand with future direction and to eliminate distractions, we are resigning from the board effective after our urgent board teleconference meeting adjourns on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, they said.
ERCOT defends power outages amid Texas winter storm, says system was near collapse
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 2/25/2021 Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Feb. 24 Representatives from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas shed some light Wednesday on why millions were left in the dark last week.
As a winter storm covered much of the state, ERCOT the nonprofit that manages the state s power grid ordered controlled outages to prevent a statewide blackout.
But what were supposed to be rolling outages spanned hours and days for some Texans.
In the board s first meeting since the outages, ERCOT CEO Bill Magness began his presentation by acknowledging the devastation, including loss of life.
AUSTIN, Texas – Five members of the board of directors at the entity that operates the state’s electrical grid resigned from their posts on Wednesday, according to a notice posted to the Public Utility Commission website.
Board Chairwoman Sally Talberg, Vice Chairman Peter Cramton and members Terry Bulger, Raymond Hepper and Vanessa Anesetti-Parra will leave the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT. None of them lives in Texas.
ERCOT has come under fire for its handling of widespread blackouts that left millions of Texans without power and water as the state faced subfreezing temperatures, snow and ice. The storm was part of an icy blast across the Deep South that resulted in more than 80 deaths, roughly half