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Doubts remain over reliability of Texas power grid

Officials say they've improved the grid, but new challenges have emerged as demand grows

"I really dont think all of this demand is going to show up," said Joshua Rhodes, a research scientist at UT Austin who studies the grid. Rhodes says that the new ERCOT forecast is based on recent mandates from the Texas legislature to include more "speculative" demand growth. Ultimately, Rhodes, the UT Austin research scientist, says the truest test for how much the power grid has changed may be another freezing storm of the magnitude that Texas saw in 2021.

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