Texas promised to winterize its energy grid. An audit found big problems.KUT AustinMedia Coverage | Aug 18, 2025

By Mose Buchele
August 18th, 2025

Critics of the Railroad Commission said the audit’s findings fit a larger pattern of lax oversight of the oil and gas industry.

“You could have [gas] operators doing the cheapest thing possible on site [to prepare for winter], and the cheapest thing possible might not be the most effective thing,” Virginia Palacios executive director of the watchdog group Commission Shift said about the current weatherization system.

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