Could it happen again? Winter to test Texas power grid reforms after February disaster
“I think demand would exceed supply and some customers would be without electricity” if there’s another bout of bad weather comparable to the storms in February, said Beth Garza, a former Austin Energy executive and independent market monitor for ERCOT.
Abbott’s guarantee that it won’t happen is “foolhardy and dangerous,” said Garza, currently a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
