January 31, 2022      3:31 PM

As wintry weather approaches, ERCOT CEO engages Texans in virtual town halls to talk grid reliability

“The best way to say it is that operators had gotten comfortable with standing at the edge of the cliff and looking down. And now we stand 10 feet back. That's the difference.”

ERCOT’s decision to focus much of its efforts and resources on the hot Texas summer months was a mistake made clear by last year’s Winter Storm Uri, interim CEO Brad Jones said during a Zoom town hall meeting in Central Texas.

The energy load during the summer has typically been much higher than the load during winter. So that’s where ERCOT’s efforts went, Jones said.

But it was wrong.

By Kimberly Reeves

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