Predicting the Grid Failure: With Professor Ed Hirs

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One of the distinguished panelists in the first part of the TAMEST Natural Hazards Summit: Responding to and Mitigating the Impacts was UH Energy Fellow Ed Hirs. He is the economist who predicted that the ERCOT grid would fail during an event like Winter Storm Uri in 2013 – a storm that claimed 211 lives. His take on the energy crisis in Texas is that it was highly politicized.