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Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference at the State Capitol in Austin, on June 8, 2023. Disgruntled Texans are blaming Abbott after ERCOT released a rolling blackout warning.
Peter Lake, Chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, center, during a press conference with Gov. Greg Abbott and representatives from the Texas Division of Emergency Management, ERCOT ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs bills to reform ERCOT and weatherize the power grid On a hot summer day, one megawatt can usually power 200 homes. ERCOT is working to figure out why so many ...
Texans are, once again, fed up with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) — and Gov. Greg Abbott. At least 151 Texans died during February's historic winter freeze and 4.5 million ...
Governor Greg Abbott says Texas has set and broke power demand records 10 times this summer under a relentless heatwave. The governor hailed the state’s power grid as ERCOT once again asked ...
Gov. Greg Abbott. Abbott then said ERCOT failed to act quickly in the early morning hours of Feb. 15, which put our entire grid at risk, and then led to prolonged outages. “ ...
Abbott’s resignation call comes after he made ERCOT reform an emergency item Tuesday for the Texas Legislature. Committees in the House and Senate are also expected to hold hearings on the outages.
We asked Gov. Greg Abbott and here's his response in this previous report on the prolonged outages from Feb. 15, 2021. The visibly frustrated governor even called for the resignation of the ERCOT ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the nonprofit that oversees the state's power grid, "has been anything but reliable" and is adding ERCOT reform as an ...
ERCOT, the entity that oversees Texas' electrical grid, made a request to allow generators to bypass emissions limits, not Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
Gov. Greg Abbott called on state lawmakers to mandate the winterization of generators and power plants, ... "ERCOT failed on each of these measures that they said they had undertaken," Abbott said.
AUSTIN, Texas — The energy grid in Texas “is better today than it’s ever been,” Gov. Greg Abbott said at a press conference Wednesday. But, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT ...