Everyone who oversees the Texas electric grid is a political appointee, which is driving...
Abbott appointed his former policy adviser and Republican insider, DeAnn Walker, to chair the three-member PUC. An experienced energy executive, Bill Magness, was CEO of ERCOT when a monster Arctic front sank into Texas in mid-February 2021.
Everyone involved in overseeing or operating Texas’s electricity grid and natural gas network for the past 20 years has been a Republican or a Republican appointee. GOP lawmakers created the electricity markets that allowed prices to range from negative dollars to $9,000 a megawatt-hour.. A similar storm in 2011 caused rolling blackouts, and everyone knew the state had ignored federal recommendations made in 2012 to avoid another fatal failure.
Abbott was among the angry Texans. During a bankruptcy trial in Houston, Magness testified that Abbott, through Walker, ordered him to use the only tool he had available to influence power plant operators. An Abbott spokesman later denied that Abbott played a role in Magness’ decision. But a top Abbott aide was in the room when it was made.
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