After a 2021 winter storm shut down much of the Texas grid and killed at least 246, there was a reckoning in Austin. For two decades, the state had been creating cheap, abundant electricity, and then lawmakers decided to pivot and put reliability first. They installed new regulators, who have managed oversight more aggressively and […]
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