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PUC Chairman Peter Lake and ERCOT Interim President and CEO Brad Jones on Thursday discussed their plan for improving the reliability of Texas’ power grid.

Texas’ utility regulators on Thursday are set to discuss their plan to improve the reliability of the state’s electricity grid as the hottest days of the summer approach.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas released a new plan Tuesday aimed at making the state’s power grid more reliable. It comes on the heels of the massive winter power outages and recent warnings about power shortages on hot days in June.

One month after declaring Texas’ electric power grid fixed, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott demanded aggressive action from state utility regulators Tuesday to shore up that grid.

NBC 5 Investigates shows how ERCOT underestimated the amount of power Texans would need in the winter and how that could spell trouble this summer.

NBC 5 Investigates shows how ERCOT underestimated the amount of power Texans would need in the winter and how that could spell trouble this summer.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed two bills Tuesday related to the February winter storm that left millions of people in the Lone Star State powerless for days as temperatures in North Texas dropped near or below zero.

In “Powerless,” NBC 5 Investigates reveals the causes of Texas’ massive February 2021 power crisis that led to 150 deaths and caused more than $100 billion in damage.

NBC5 investigates traveled to a frigid wind farm to see how Texas could make wind power more reliable before the next winter storm.

NBC 5 Investigates traveled to a frigid wind farm to see how Texas could make wind power more reliable before the next winter storm.

They live through brutal winters, year after year. But the lights stay on. NBC 5 investigates what Texas can learn from colder states to prevent future disasters.

They live through brutal winters, year after year. But the lights stay on. NBC 5 investigates what Texas can learn from colder states to prevent future disasters.

NBC 5 pinpoints power plants that had outages in both 2021 and 2011.

Texas power companies promised to fix problems to prevent more power outages during a winter storm in 2011. But it happened again this year.

Why were Texans caught off guard by the massive power outages during February’s winter storm?

NBC 5 Investigates looks at what ERCOT said – and didn’t say – before millions of Texans wound up in the dark