Texas Needs a Vision for Customer-Side Solutions

The vast majority of power outages happen on the distribution side of the grid: think downed power lines or blown transformers that knock out power for thousands or even millions of people, but that don’t create the statewide misery of 2021’s Winter Storm Uri.

But Texas policymakers put most of their focus — and billions of Texans’ taxpayer dollars — focused on subsidizing new gas supply, even though they wouldn’t help after a hurricane or in advance of wildfire and the inability to produce and move gas was the biggest cause of Winter Storm Uri…