Consumer Costs at Heart of Conflict Between ERCOT and the Independent Market Monitor

Everyone should agree that protecting Texas consumers must come first — which demands a holistic review of backup reserves

Texas energy consumers need relief, and they aren’t getting it from ERCOT. 

Over and over, the agency’s policy choices have drifted toward the expensive — policies all-but designed to run up power bills — and away from cheaper, more effective solutions that protect consumers and the grid.

This ideological recklessness inevitably ran up against the state’s…