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ERCOT: A Policy Failure Through Lack of Imagination
By Blake Jones
Mar 8, 2021
A lack of imagination caused the ERCOT grid failure. No one imagined a weeklong extreme cold spell, despite Hollywood blockbusters imagining extreme weather events and much, much worse. Neither the regulators nor the risk managers across the bulk power system thought much about the 200-page report issued in 2011 that...
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