While Oklahoma belongs to the Southwest Power Pool which is a voluntary group of 13 other states, Texas has its own power pool. And most of the state, with the exception of El Paso and parts of the Panhandle are in the power pool called the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
Now ERCOT is coming under criticism after millions suffered blackouts in the historic winter storm, the same storm that left the SPP staging rolling blackouts in Oklahoma.
USA Today reported on how Texans’ criticism of California’s rolling blackouts last summer caused in part by renewable energy dependence has come back to haunt them.
Click here for the USA Today story.