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ERCOT Emergency Warning Shocks Texans On Mild April Day

by Beth Garza

April 14, 2021

issues: Electricity Policy, Energy and Environment, State Policy, Texas

originally published in Forbes

“It borders the edge of reasonable,” the Tribune quoted Beth Garza, director of ERCOT’s independent watchdog from 2014 to 2019, as saying in response to the ERCOT explanation of events.

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