Sign up for The Brief , our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Four board members of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the entity that manages and operates the electricity grid that covers much of Texas, will resign on Wednesday, according to a notice to the Public Utility Commission. Sally Talberg, board chair; Peter Cramton, vice chair; Terry Bulger, finance and audit chair; and Raymond Hepper, human resources and governance committee chair, 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. ERCOT board members had come under fire last week when it was reported that some of the board members did not reside in the state. ERCOT officials, during a press conference last week, said it had removed personal information about the directors from its website because the board members were experiencing harassment. The board has also been criticized for its handling of last week’s mass power outage during a winter storm […]
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