Roosevelt signed the Federal Power Act, which charged the Federal Power Commission with regulating interstate electricity sales.
The predecessor for ERCOT was formed in the 1930s, after President Franklin D. The reasons Texas controls its own grid, journalist Kate Galbraith observed in a Texplainer piece for the Texas Tribune in 2011, have to do with the same theme that colors so much of Texas' history and public policy: a distrust of federal interference. The country is divided into three grids: one covers the eastern U.S., another the western states and then there is the Texas grid, which covers nearly the entire state. As winter storm blackouts roiled Texas in early 2021, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the nonprofit that operates Texas' electrical grid, gained notoriety - as well as the simple fact that Texas has its own electrical grid.
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