080: The Texas Power Grid: Deregulation & Vulnerability with Seth Mansur of RER Energy Group

A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast

Marjorie Alexander

Society & Culture, Science, Nature

4.6 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week features an additional episode tackling the Texas power grid. I chat with Seth Mansur of RER Energy Group
to get a better understanding of what deregulation means for a power grid, why some Texans are now receiving insanely high energy bills, and what role infrastructure and politics play in the larger picture.

Get in touch with Seth at smansur@rerenergygroup.com or check out rerenergygroup.com.

This is the first episode I've done of this kind, addressing a current climate event, and I hope to be addressing more just like this as climate events occur.

Lastly, if you love ASM then mark your calendars for our very first live online event. M.A.S.S. Eco Live will take place April 30-May 2, 2021, and will feature 3 days of panel discussions, keynote speakers, and workshops! To attend, sponsor, apply to be a panelist, or even to give us a hand with the event please head on over to http://MassEcoLive.com. Hope to see you there.

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0:00.0	This is a Sustainable Mind, Episode 80.
0:03.0	Hey everyone, this is Marjorie Alexander, and today I'm going to be sharing with you a conversation that's a little bit different than our normal interviews.
0:11.0	We will be addressing the topic of the Texas power outages that happened less than two weeks ago with the huge storms that swept across the U.S.
0:20.0	and talk about the impact that that had
0:22.5	on the Texas power grid. So this is the very first episode of this kind. It's a stripped down
0:27.8	version of the typical interviews. It is addressing something that's current. And it is our very
0:33.4	first video interview, which I've posted on some of our social media outlets. So you can go ahead and check that out if you'd like.
0:40.3	In the future, I would like to address current climate events that are happening in the news.
0:46.3	Always unfortunate when events like this do happen, but I do want to make sure that we are addressing these as much in real time as we possibly can. So that's the
0:56.0	reason for these stripped down editing. Also, we have our very first live event going on later this
1:02.1	year in April. And if you would like to learn more about that, stick around to the end of the
1:07.0	episode. I'll give you the website and all of the details there. Now, let's get into the
1:12.1	episode. So Seth Mansor is a longtime sustainability advocate. He's a Marine Corps veteran. Thank you for
1:18.9	your service, Seth, and has developed a deep understanding of the multitude of energy management
1:23.7	solutions with the focus on commercial scale projects. His primary focus is helping
1:29.4	organizations take a proactive approach to evaluating and taking action on their energy needs.
1:35.1	And today's Seth is going to be chatting with us about the Texas power grid issue, what exactly
1:40.8	happened and what can be done in the future to really prevent something like this.
1:44.9	So, Seth, my very first question is deregulation.
1:50.8	Deregulated power grid, Texas.
1:53.9	Is the entire state of Texas deregulated?
1:56.9	Where are kind of the boundaries of that?
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