Hurricane Beryl barreled through Houston last Monday leaving over three million electric utility customers without power in the sweltering summer heat. Hurricanes, despite appearing with increasing frequency and greater force, are still relatively infrequent in terms of devastating any given electric utility’s service area. There are things that management routinely prepares for and executes and there are unexpected severe weather events no matter how accurately forecasted. In the latter case, management can only respond. They can't retroactively…
