7: Is the Texas Power Grid ‘Fixed’?

The Texas power grid is infamously disconnected from the rest of the U.S.. Its status as an “energy island” can bring both advantages and disadvantages. Two years ago, Winter Storm Uri knocked out power across Texas for days and exposed major reliability concerns. Here, we discuss changes made in the two years since Winter Storm Uri. Is the Texas grid “fixed?” 

Discussants: 

• The Honorable David M. Satterfield, Director, Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Janice and Robert McNair Chair in Public Policy

• Edward M. Emmett, Fellow in Energy and Transportation Policy, Baker Institute

• Peter R. Hartley, Ph.D., George A. Peterkin Professor of Economics, Rice University; Rice Faculty Scholar of Energy Economics, Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Julie A. Cohn, Ph.D.,Research Historian, Center for Public History at the University of Houston; Nonresident Scholar, Baker Institute for Public Policy