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.

  • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
    61·
    2 months 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
      2·
      2 months 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.