Ice storms across the past two months have left hundreds of thousands of customers without power, often for days at a time.
House Energy, Communications, and Technology Committee chair Helena Scott, a Democrat, says the companies need to make a change.
“It’s unconscionable that people have been going so long without power, without food, losing medicine, and I think if anything we got from this hearing it’s that change needs to come and we’re going to start doing that in this Legislature.”
Scott says she hopes to get a policy workgroup together soon to recommend new laws.
The utilities blame the blackouts on an aging electric grid.
