Four ERCOT board members who live outside of Texas resign in the aftermath of the power outage, wint
Source: Texas Tribune
Four board members of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the entity that manages and operates the electricity grid that covers much of Texas, will resign on Wednesday, according to a notice to the Public Utility Commission.
All four of the members who are resigning live out of state.
Sally Talberg, the chairwoman of the board, Peter Cramton, the vice chairman, Terry Bulger, the chairman of finance and audit, and Raymond Hepper, the human resources and governance committee chairman will resign at the end of the ERCOT board meeting Wednesday morning, according to the notice.
ERCOT board members had come under fire last week when it was reported that four of the board members did not reside in the state. The board has also been criticized for its handling of last week's mass power outage during a winter storm that has claimed the lives of dozens of Texans. More than 4.5 million customers were without power at one point last week.
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one that insisted that they were going to "go it alone" and not have any "interstate commerce" in terms of working with other states as part of a joint grid.
Here in Philly, we are part of the big PJM (Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Maryland) electric grid where they will ebb and flow electricity back and forth across those 3 big states, along with Delaware, and as D.C. and D.C. metro. So if one area has a surge/outage, they can redirect there from another within the grid. And since Exelon, which is in Chicago, bought Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO) some time ago, their "HQ" is pretty much in Chicago, with some members here in PA, so in that case, you'd expect dispersed people. And in our case, each of the states in the grid have their own utility regulation commissions (PA has the Public Utility Commission or "PUC" ).
So what happened in TX with those members (who resigned 
), just adds fuel to the fire for how bogus the "we're going it alone" facade was. If anything, this whole sad affair IS instructive because it gives the PTB a little taste of what might happen if they did really secede. 
