An Interview With the CEO of the Texas Grid
Last May Trip Doggett became president and chief executive of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the Texas electric grid (he had previously served in that position in an interim capacity for a few years).
Doggett spoke with the Tribune Friday by telephone about what is surely one of the greatest challenges of his tenure — the rolling power blackouts that the state experienced on Wednesday. An edited transcript and audio of the conversation follow.
TT: Is everything back up and running? I know Luminant's [coal plants are] back. What's the situation in the Valley?
Doggett: Things ...
Comments (7)
psadler
Kate - I have followed every story from every publication on this storm and the resulting blackouts. Congratulations, this article is the very best one so far. It is thorough, fair and informative. Thank you.
Deece Eckstein via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dear Mr Doggett: Please cut the crap, man up, and admit what most of us already know: some people made a lot of money during the rolling blackouts, and they weren't consumers.
Michael Cosper via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Outright evasion, this guy has to go.
Mac Mcclure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Is he any relation to Lloyd? He knows nothing and probably charged us for his hotel room. With a guy like this in charge I feel sure problems will never happen again (not).
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No phone service or no home? ?
Kathy Genet
Very insightful questions, I think there is a deeper story here and the TT seems exactly the type of news organization who can ferret it out. Thanks for this.
BiffTannen
I thought the all-powerful free market would prevent these thing from happening?
Instead of a public regulatory service looking over electricity, we have a company with a CEO who is afraid of saying anything remotely negative against its member companies which also fund ERCOT.
I remember years ago during the outages in the Northeast and California that Texas wouldn't have those problems. Where are those trumpets now?