ERCOT board members plan to resign

Four members of the Electric Reliability Council Of Texas board members have plan to resign, including the chairman and vice-chairman:, and a fifth person who had applied for an opening on the board has withdrawn his application, according to a report from the Texas Tribune.

Sally Talberg, board chairwoman; Peter Cramton, vice chairman; Terry Bulger, finance and audit chairman; and Raymond Hepper, human resources and governance committee chairman, will resign at the end of the ERCOT board meeting Wednesday morning, according to the notice. All four of them live out of state.

Craig Ivey, who also lives outside of Texas, was slated to fill a vacant position but withdrew his application, according to the notice.

“When Texans were in desperate need of electricity, ERCOT failed to do its job and Texans were left shivering in their homes without power. ERCOT leadership made assurances that Texas’ power infrastructure was prepared for the winter storm, but those assurances proved to be devastatingly false. The lack of preparedness and transparency at ERCOT is unacceptable, and I welcome these resignations. The State of Texas will continue to investigate ERCOT and uncover the full picture of what went wrong, and we will ensure that the disastrous events of last week are never repeated,” Gov. Greg Abbott said in a news release.