Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has thrown his support behind the Texas Public Utility Commission’s (PUC) proposal to overhaul the market design of the state’s power grid.
On Tuesday, Abbott sent a letter to the PUC commissioners (pdf) expressing his support and urging them to adopt the grid’s redesign plan that was introduced in November. The PUC oversees the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, known as ERCOT, an independent nonprofit responsible for operating the grid.
State lawmakers ordered the PUC to develop grid reliability reforms following the February 2021 freeze that left millions of Texans without power for days. The statewide outage led to at least 246 deaths….