Rep. James Talarico: The Winter Storm Edition

I wanted this episode to to help give our listeners some context into why a winter storm could knock cold our essential utilities — heat and water — 

So, after he wrote and posted a terrific Tweet this week, I invited Representative James Talarico to sit in for a bit. We talked about how inexpensive it is to prevent the sort of energy failures Texas saw as compared to how expensive it will be to recover from this natural disaster and who has the ultimate responsibility — spoiler alert, it’s not really ERCOT, tho that group isn’t without culpability and will be thrown under the bus in the coming weeks.

You can see the Tweet here: 
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362165264020688902.html

It's a bit technical but you can see the autopsy of the 2011 storm here:
https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/08-16-11-report.pdf