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The widespread outages across the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) system were a result of many errors in the wholesale energy markets. Electric generators that could not run when called…
“If I owned Texas and Hell,” Gen. Philip Sheridan once said, “I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.” He probably was thinking about our hot summers, but after last week Hell’s central heating is…
From The Daily Signal:
As Devin Hartman, the director of energy and environment policy for the free market think tank R Street Institute, wrote this week:
Inoperable heating systems are a…
From Energy Intelligence Group:
Risk management incentives for suppliers to align with reliability goals could also help, argued Devin Hartman, a former president of the Electricity Consumers…
From Unsupervised Learning:
This week’s guests made time to chat at a moment’s notice over the last 24 hours as the luckiest of us are just beginning to get back to normal life (though many…
From Alison Morrow:
#TexasPowerOutage #WindTurbines #GreenEnergy About 4 million people in Texas have dealt with power and water outages due to severe winter weather. Some have blamed…
From Bloomberg:
“The grid requires instantaneous supply-demand balance close to 60 hertz with a very narrow error margin,” said Devin Hartman, director of energy and environmental policy at…
From SiriusXM:
Devin Hartman, Director of Energy and Environmental Policy and Resident Senior Fellow at the R. Street Institute, joins Julie Mason to discuss the Texas winter storm…
From The Daily Signal:
Customers may not want to pay extra for “black swan” events like this, but answering that question will most certainly be part of the discussion in the months ahead.
From S&P Global:
However, some of NERC’s prior recommendations have not suited the Texas energy market, according to Devin Hartman, director of energy and environmental policy at the R Street…