Actually Abbot has very little to do with the appointments to ERCOT and/or the TX PUC for that matter. ERCOT themselves decide who and how many serve on that board.
The real crime here is that ERCOT has no sense of balance regarding the mix of energy sources used in Texas. Allowing such a fragile energy source as wind/solar to be 32% of the Texas energy production is criminal. Look at what actually happened ... the energy sources that the ‘woke greens’ have wet dreams over failed spectacularly while the most hated sources (coal & nukes) soldiered along with only small deterioration in production.
The Texas grid needs to remain separate from the Federally regulated rest of the nation for political expediency. But Texas needs to drastically cut wind/solar dependency and increase the number of coal and nukes.
What are you talking about? He APPOINTS the heads of ERCOT.
PUC I mean. Sorry. And PUC appoints ERCOT.
SORRY my fingers going faster than my brain.
What that graph does not show, BTW, is that there was a lot of reserve gas capacity that never came online because those plants were not fired up in advance as a precaution and the “cold”, unwinterized plants froze up even faster. Plus, gas supply itself froze up.