![]() ![]() They just were introducing some people that they knew to the new governor and there wasn’t a big Republican farm team out there because even though he began what became a total realignment of the state. “I don’t think they identified where I should work. He’s worked two years at the Railroad Commission. and said: ‘You know, you ought to get Pat in your government because he’s worked two years for us. “But yeah, I met Bush after that election Chairman Allday and Commissioner Langdon wrote a letter on my behalf to George W. ![]() And that’s where I met my wife and we had our first two kids there and all that kind of came, you know, a few years later. ![]() That’d be a pretty awesome place for them because it really was that. I thought, you know, Austin wouldn’t be too bad for a single guy. So needless to say, I interviewed this guy and I thought he was great. “I went to interview him just honestly, to get those others off my back, because there was no way that I was going to: A) work in the government any longer than the two years I had already done it because of my poor private sector dad just had to keep his head up over the dashboard of this idea that his son was working for the public sector, and then also living in Austin, Texas. Barry Williamson and he was elected in the 1992 election. “And so I came back to Texas to look for a job, and I ended up getting suggested to interview with a young man who had just gotten elected to the Texas Railroad Commission. And so Jerry and Chairman Allday and Jamie Baker, who’s the secretary of state son who was a partner at the Baker Botts Law Firm that I used to work at before I went for work as a staffer at FERC. I came back to work for… after (President Bill) Clinton was elected and I knew Chairmen Allday would be gone and Jerry would not be reappointed because Clinton wanted to put his own Democrats on the committee commission. “Anyway, they wrote a nice letter on my behalf. So I got to know Jerry and Chairman Allday really well. So Jerry hired me shortly after that, after President Bush came into office, Jerry hired me to work for him as his legal counsel. He appointed Chairmen Allday to be chairman of FERC. Bush came in and appointed a close associate of his who was is actually his first campaign manager when he ran unsuccessfully for Congress out of Midland back in the sixties, I suppose. And FERC was required to be bipartisan, usually 3-2, whatever the ruling party was by the presidency. “So when I was at FERC, I worked for Jerry Langdon, who is a Democrat Texan from Midland that was appointed by President Reagan to one of the spots on FERC. Episode Highlights (quotes edited for clarity) Pat Wood’s first interaction with George W. They also explored issues and controversies surrounding the ERCOT market, deregulation (aka restructuring), renewables, storage, energy efficiency, transmission, nuclear power, demand flexibility, electric vehicles, and more. Lewin and Wood discussed, first and foremost, how Texas is dealing with the fallout from Uri and working to ensure it never happens again. Lewin’s conversation with Pat Wood covered the state’s market redesign efforts, the enabling technologies that can support grid resilience, and the moment when then-governor Bush was first drawn to renewables. experienced what is still the largest blackout ever in terms of customers affected in 2003. Wood led FERC from 2001-05, during which time the U.S. While Wood was the chair of the PUCT from 1995-2001, the Texas Legislature passed two major deregulatory bills: Senate Bill 373 in 1995, which restructured wholesale energy markets and Senate Bill 7, which restructured retail energy markets and established the Renewable Portfolio Standard and the Energy Efficiency Resource Standard. On Episode 1 of the Texas Power Podcast, host Doug Lewin is joined by Pat Wood, former chairman of both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Public Utility Commission of Texas. The storm’s aftermath also sparked a debate over how to make the ERCOT grid more resilient in the face of extreme weather events and a changing energy mix. The freeze and subsequent outages from Winter Storm Uri in 2021 left hundreds dead and millions without power. Texas is tackling an energy market redesign not seen in decades.
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