In the News Texas Isn’t Ready for Another Deep Freeze
by
Beth Garza
Nov 1, 2021
originally published in
Bloomberg
“If the same weather were to occur this winter, I don’t have a lot confidence for the gas industry to produce more gas than the last time around, and I have small confidence that the power plants would perform better,” said Beth Garza, a former utility executive and market monitor who is now a consultant for think tank R Street Institute. The gas industry has “a history of not being there for when they are most needed from the electric sector.”
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