Texas county DA opens criminal investigation into whether any person or entity should face charges for last week's deadly power outages José Garza, the District Attorney for Travis County - which includes Austin, did not indicate if the Electric Reliability Council of Texas would be targeted Top ERCOT board leaders said on Tuesday they will resign after more than 4 million customers lost electricity during the winter storm last week Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has largely blamed the outages on ERCOT and called for investigations This week, the State Legislature is set to begin hearings amid calls for reform of its deregulated electricity market