Tag Archives: Jason Isaac

TPPF’s Jason Isaac On The Reasons Behind The Great 2021 Texas Freeze Blackouts

Posted on September 25, 2021 by Lawrence Person

Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Jason Isaac has a Prager U video analysis of the reasons behind the great Texas ice storm blackouts. The analysis will be familiar to regular readers: Over-investment in unreliable, subsidized renewable energy meant under-investment in reliable … Continue reading →

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Texas Energy Outage Postmortem

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Lawrence Person

I finally had time to finish this postmortem post on the Texas winter storm energy grid crisis. I’ve got a ton of pieces to get through, so let’s dig in. How the energy grid fell apart: Here were two problems, … Continue reading →

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Quick Impressions: Texas Twenty-First U.S. Congressional District Race

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Lawrence Person

The Twenty-First U.S. Congressional District, the seat held by retiring Republican Lamar Smith, runs from Austin to San Antonio, encompassing much of the western Hill Country. It’s heavily Republican and largely white, though with a significant Hispanic population. There are … Continue reading →

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