S1E4: R Street's Devin Hartman explains that February's weather-induced grid crisis was not caused by the state's competitive power market. If anything, he says, Texas doesn't have enough of a competitive market.

The deep freeze-induced Great Texas Grid Failure was not because of the electricity market. If anything, Texas doesn't have enough of a market for electricity. So says R Street's Devin Hartman, standing by his description of an enhanced Texas-style approach to electricity, a market-based approach, as the "gold standard" all policy makers should embrace to meet the Biden administration's goal of a zero-emissions grid by 2035.

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