Texas electric grid to finally connect to US grid (electrek.co)

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Part of the larger federal grid infrastructure updates announced today.

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[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

Now I'm worried we'll take everyone else down with us.

[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

They have more renewables than any other state.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

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

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 points 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 points 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.

[-] kalpol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months 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.