Posted on 07/13/2024 7:58:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
CenterPoint’s project would have used the money “to fund high wind and flood mitigation projects.”
President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy rejected Houston’s request to strengthen its energy grid in 2023.
Houston entered day five of power outages after Hurricane Beryl.
Maybe, just maybe, stop concentrating on your fantasy green energy:
CenterPoint Energy sought the money from a new $10.5 billion Department of Energy program that is helping utilities, states and local agencies protect the electric grid from the growing threats of extreme weather and climate change.
“I don’t understand how the grant application could be rejected,” University of Houston energy economist Ed Hirs said. “This is the home of the petrochemical part of America. I mean, for God’s sakes, what’s DOE thinking?”
“A grant to CenterPoint to make the service in and around Houston more resilient is truly a matter of national security,” Hirs said.
CenterPoint has faced criticism for widespread power outages after Hurricane Beryl, a Category 1 storm, hit the area Monday morning, downing electric poles and wires across the nation’s fourth-largest metropolitan area. CenterPoint said Thursday it had restored power to more than 1.1 million homes and businesses.
Is it to punish Texas?
Yep - anything to help with the destruction of America.
Texas should have been taken care of Texas’s problems itself if the feds didn’t offer help. Why haven’t most Americans realized that Washington flinging around billion dollar grants everywhere is corrosive to our republic?
This is like the school system...STOP taking FED $$...it destroys everything it touches.
The Biden regime had to make the money that could have gone to upgrade the Texas electric grid went to Ukraine so Ukraine could continue a proxy war that destroyed its electric grid.
The Biden regime had to make the money that could have gone to upgrade the Texas electric grid went to Ukraine so Ukraine could continue a proxy war that destroyed its electric grid.
Exactly right! The bigger picture here is why the hell does the DOE evenhave a program to spend $10 billion on utility infrastructure? Let the damn utilities pay for their own operations and maintenance. Federal largesse corrupts thinking and you concentrate on paying the piper rather than correctly and efficiently managing your own business.
I HATE the GD government butting its nose everywhere it doesn’t belong.
When I was a kid growing up in Texas the state was famous for having its own power grid, was not connected to any other state. I remember temps from 15 degrees to 105ish. I don’t remember power outages.
Another example of We’re from the gov’t, and, we’re here to *help* you.
Texas should know better than to wait on Briben’s gov’t to help.
Fix our own problems!!
“””””CenterPoint Energy sought the money from a new $10.5 billion Department of Energy program that is helping utilities, states and local agencies protect the electric grid from the growing threats of extreme weather and climate change.
“I don’t understand how the grant application could be rejected,” University of Houston energy economist Ed Hirs said. “This is the home of the petrochemical part of America. I mean, for God’s sakes, what’s DOE thinking?””””””
Houston should have been on the top of the list, perhaps it is in the wrong state.
A ping out to the Texas Ping list, founded by Windflier.
“I don’t understand how the grant application could be rejected,” University of Houston energy economist Ed Hirs said. “This is the home of the petrochemical part of America. I mean, for God’s sakes, what’s DOE thinking?”
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It’s Texas responsibility to maintain it’s own grid... not the feds. They screwed the pooch with solar and wind. spit
Wow, the DOE managed to rub two brain cells together and say “no”?
Gulf coast area cannot be “proofed” against storm damage. The water table is <12 feet down — no underground lines. The soil, to hundreds of feet, is gumbo. It would take hundreds of billions of $$ to stabilize the tens of thousands of power poles in that crappola. Geesh, Houston’s buildings have to dig down hundreds of feet and create concrete platforms to keep them from falling over in a moderate breeze. They don’t reach bedrock, they just depend upon the weight of the hundreds of tons of gumbo to keep the platform vertical.
Just have standby power scattered all over that can cut in — like what is done with hospitals and IT centers.
Why can’t the users of Texas electricity pay for their juice with their own money.
I’d rather see Texas or any other state receive money before Ukraine gets anymore...
This has absolutely nothing to do with the grid. It was a damn hurricane. Falling trees causing downed lines. Poles snapping off. We had the same issues from straight line winds in East Texas last month.
Seems like that
They take the money from the state’s residents and then give a small fraction back (or not) with strings attached.
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