NPR. You might remember back in 2021 when there was this huge winter storm that hit Texas.

It caused a blackout that lasted for days and Mose Boushell from Public Radio Station K-U-T in Austin was there to report on it.

Yeah, yeah, and live through it myself. We lost power too.

And in a way that's a good starting point for today's episode, because there was a lot of political fallout from the blackout and ever since

state politicians and regulators have focused more on improving the Texas power grid.

Yeah but it has not been easy.

And now some are saying that a key reform that grid managers here put in place this year

might have inflated energy prices by billions

without any benefit for electric reliability.

It has to do with something called artificial shortages

on the energy market.

This is the indicator from Planet Money, I'm Darren Woods.

And I'm Mosbuchel.

Today's show, what we can learn from Texas on managing and perhaps

mismanaging its energy market.

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So today we're going to talk about the Texas Power Grid, but we're going to start with a little

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