The Cost of Unreliability
2 min readFeb 19, 2021
With millions of Texans without power and other essential utilities with at least 27 deaths recorded as of February 17, 2021, could Texas energy generators have been better prepared?
Ed Hirs of the University of Houston, an energy fellow, and professor of energy economics, claims that investing in reliability beforehand could have significantly prepared Texas energy generators and lightened this week’s burden.
