All four unaffiliated Electric Reliability Council of Texas board members on Feb. 23 notified the Public Utility Commission of Texas of their plans to resign their seats at the end of the Feb. 24 urgent board meeting, scheduled to discuss last week’s polar vortex and rolling blackouts. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Also, another unaffiliated director candidate in line to fill an open seat withdrew from consideration. The resignations leave the board with 11 seated members In the wake of the rolling blackouts that affected about 2.8 million customers across the state, some have questioned the idea of having board members who reside outside Texas. The resigning board members are: Sally Talberg, board chairman, a former Michigan Public Service Commission member Peter Cramton, board vice chairman, an economics professor at the University of Cologne, Germany, and the University of Maryland […]