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srothstein wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:40 am

Rafe wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:48 amAnd then you'll come this: "The Public Utility Commission is organized under the direction of three full-time appointed commissioners and the executive director, who is selected by the commissioners."

So there is zero public oversite or accountability of the commission, and no administrators are elected officials. Oversite is by the state bureaucracy only, and the commission's director is selected unilaterally by the three appointed commissioners.

I left out that part in my rant about who is responsible and who is a scapegoat, I am unable to track down who appoints the ERCOT board of Directors. Some are listed as "ex officio, non-voting" members which means they sit on this board because they hold another office that the law made them representatives on the board. The consumer representative is one of these offices. The rest represent different segments of the electric market, such as the rural electric providers or municipal retail providers or whatever. These could be elected by the segment they represent or appointed by some group that represents that segment. A good investigation of this is needed and the makeup of the board may need to be changed.

But I thought most people knew the PUC was a government agency with commissioners appointed by the governor. And since he has been in office long enough, every appointed commissioner in Texas government has been appointed by Abbott. And we need to remember that in 18 months when the election comes.

philip964 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:48 pm https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/04 ... 6-billion/

16 billion in over charges just in the last 33 hours after the crisis had passed.

https://news.yahoo.com/texas-regulators ... 44818.html

PUC will not return 16 billion to consumers or power providers or, wind mill operators who may all file for bankruptcy.

See attachment.