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PowerWorld Co-Founder Comments on the Recent Weather Related Outages in ERCOT

Tom Overbye, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and a co-founder of PowerWorld Corporation, has been featured in the media in the past few days commenting on the weather-related outages that have been occurring in Texas in the last week.  For example, his comments were featured in the New York Times at:  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/16/us/winter-storm-texas-power-outage-map.html and he was interviewed on KBTX-TV, which can be viewed here:  https://www.kbtx.com/2021/02/17/am-expert-statewide-energy-generation-not-well-designed-for-super-low-temperatures/