Interconnection is a separate issue from deregulation and they're considering it: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2025/southern-spirit-transmission-li

Interconnection is a separate issue from deregulation and they're considering it: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2025/southern-spirit-transmission-line-texas/ https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2025/southern-spir... The Griddy incident wasn't quite "price gouging" if you want to read about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griddy_(company)#2021_Texas_power_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griddy_(company)#2021_Texas_po... > Griddy advised customers to remove themselves from their system during the storm, and says that over 9,700 accounts did by February 15. On February 17, they asked for PUC approval to switch the remaining customers to a traditional energy provider, but the PUC, which was overwhelmed by the situation, was unable to discuss the matter. Outages do cause deaths, that is for sure. PG&E has killed a lot of people by that metric and unfortunately PG&E's problems are a little harder to fix.