Power Grids

ERCOT and How Texas’ Deregulation of Their Electrical Market Exacerbated the Winter Storm Blackouts

ERCOT and How Texas’ Deregulation of Their Electrical Market Exacerbated the Winter Storm Blackouts

Senior Staffer, Lilly Keitges, discusses the different power grids across the country, but especially ERCOT in terms of it being an island grid. Keitges discusses how the poor regulations of this island grid were a significant cause of the outages during Winter Storm Uri and what Texas should do to help prevent more outages in the future.