ERCOT’s interim chief, a New Yorker, says he’d never seen heat like this

Amid some of the hottest days on record and, quite possibly, the longest span of days Texans have suffered through such extreme heat, the agency overseeing the state’s power grid once again asked Texans to chill out on their power usage for the second time last week. The most recent plea from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas came on Wednesday afternoon, July 13, with ERCOT specifically…