Part of the larger federal grid infrastructure updates announced today.

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      3 months ago

      Texas ain’t that big. As long as y’all aren’t getting snowed on, we should be fine.

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

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    3 months ago

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

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

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    I bet this makes electric prices go up.

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

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      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.

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    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.