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Six members of ERCOT’s board resigned this week amid pressure from Gov. The House State Affairs and Energy Resources committees held a joint hearing, and in the state Senate, the Committee on Business and Commerce held its own hearing, as ERCOT has come under intense scrutiny. The exchange came during a day of hearings into the outages, billed as a chance for lawmakers to get to the bottom of a failure that knocked out power to 4.5 million homes, cost billions of dollars in damages, and played a factor in a still unknown number of deaths across the state. “As I sit here now, I don't believe I would," Magness responded. “You wouldn't have changed anything in terms of your play calling during those critical hours?” Whitmire asked. John Whitmire, D-Houston, ERCOT CEO Bill Magness said that he had no regrets about the response, and that he made the right call to avoid a major grid failure that could have left Texans in the dark for weeks. Last week’s freezing weather led to skyrocketing demand and unprecedented strain on the power grid, forcing the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to enact sustained outages across the state to keep its grid from collapsing.īut in response to a question from state Sen. The head of the state's power grid operator on Thursday defended the group’s decision to order widespread blackouts during last week's winter storm, telling state lawmakers that doing so helped prevent a larger disaster. TODAY IN HOUSTON | Start your day with the Houston Public Media newsletter history, leaving more than 4 million customers without power and heat in subfreezing temperatures. The hearings were the first in Texas since a blackout that was one of the worst in U.S. AP Photo/Eric Gay Curtis Morgan, the CEO of Vistra Corp., at table left, testifies as the Committees on State Affairs and Energy Resources holds a joint public hearing to consider the factors that led to statewide electrical blackouts, Thursday, Feb.