Winter Storm Uri and the Future of Texas Electricity Reliability with James Coleman | Emphasis Added

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On this month's episode of Emphasis Added, I spoke with Energy Law Professor James Coleman at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law. James has been teaching in the field of energy regulatory law for over a decade, has authored numerous articles on the regulation of North American energy companies, and produces a wealth of energy law content through a variety of platforms. We discussed Texas’s system for ensuring electricity reliability before and during Winter Storm Uri, the damage that occurred because of the near catastrophic failure of Texas’s grid, and the aftermath of Uri including the hundreds of cases of litigation pending and the Texas Legislature’s response to this disaster that took effect on/before September 1, 2021.

You can find more content from @EnergyLawProf James Coleman at the links below:
YouTube Page -    / @energylawprof  
Website - https://www.energylawprof.com/
Twitter -   / energylawprof  
SSRN Author Page - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/A...
Energy Tradeoffs Website - https://www.energytradeoffs.com/

Season 3, Episode 4: Contents
00:00 – Intro
04:44 – Why Texas Has Its Own Grid
11:00 – Electricity Reliability Before the Storm: ERCOT and the RRC
26:14 – What Went Wrong During Winter Storm Uri
37:20 – Billions in Damage: Whether to Weatherize
46:11 – How Close Texas Came to a Total Catastrophe
49:07 – The Aftermath in the Court Room: Litigation from Uri
1:02:13 – The Texas Legislature’s Response to Uri

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