HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) The Texas Legislature hearings were held on Thursday morning to investigate last week s failure of the state s power grid and its manager, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
During an emergency board meeting Wednesday, ERCOT officials said the grid was a mere four minutes and 37 seconds from a total collapse.
More than 350 power generators were knocked offline due to weather issues. Had they not implemented controlled outages, Texas would have been in the dark for weeks. That is why I have made it a legislative priority to mandate and to fund the winterization and stabilization of the Texas power infrastructure, said Gov. Greg Abbott in a statewide address Wednesday evening. This will protect the power grid from future power events.