Hell froze over in Texas – the state will connect to the US grid for the first time via a fed grant
electrek.co
The DOE announces $1.5B for four transmission projects – including connecting the Texas grid to the Southeast grids for the first time ever.

Part of the larger federal grid infrastructure updates announced today.

  • kalpol@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 hours ago

    This story is flat out wrong. we are already connected to the other interconnects, this is just a 4th one (albeit a big one). ERCOT is still managing as normal. Also the connection can go both ways or be turned off. We actually supply a lot of power to the other grids.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    342·
    2 days ago

    This is Texas quietly admitting that climate change is real and they are unprepared to meet the needs of Texas without help.

  • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
    51·
    1 day ago

    I bet this makes electric prices go up.

    Ultimately it’s a good thing, but they’ll gouge us for it anyway

    • kalpol@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Texas actually sells a lot of the wind power to the other interconnects already through the existing connections. You can watch it on the ERCOT dashboard.

  • Gerudo@lemm.ee
    101·
    2 days ago

    They realized the AI tech bros coming here need some juice.

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    71·
    2 days ago

    All those terrible stories during the cold snap. Hopefully, a thing in the past.