Posted on 06/24/2024 1:46:47 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) on Monday led 22 members of Congress in requesting that the Department of Energy add Texas to the areas serviced by proposed federal corridors for electrical transmission.
In May, the department announced 10 proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (NIETCs) that, if implemented, could make federal funds available to expand grid capability in those areas. However, Texas, which relies on the self-contained Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), was not among the proposed sites.
“The United States needs a 21st-century electric grid [and] you can’t have a 21st-centutry electric grid with a giant hole in the middle of it in the shape of Texas,” Casar told The Hill in an interview. “The earlier list of corridors selected continues to exclude Texas, and that needs to change. That’s why we’re asking the Department of Energy in their next list to include adding transmission in and around the state of Texas.”
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>> “The United States needs a 21st-century electric grid [and] you can’t have a 21st-centutry electric grid with a giant hole in the middle of it in the shape of Texas,” Casar told The Hill in an interview.
What the beyotch is actually saying is “We want to carpet every square inch of rural Texas with solar and wind and route the electricity from it to OUR states so we don’t have to crap up OUR landscape!
FU Greg Casar. Good and hard with a red hot poker.
More avenues for the government to raise tax money from solid citizens.
Sounds like the feds want to control the electric power in Texas (underlide control).
It is unconstitutional.
Exactly.
Just like everywhere else.
Exactly. I have no doubt that with this federal funding comes federal rules for Texans to save themselves from the carbon sins by reducing how much dependable power is made with hydrocarbons.
Texas needs to keep its grid separate and free of Federal Control.
The better to secede from the Federal colossus.
Why would the US be involved and subsidizing commercial electric utilities? Not a federal problem.
Just about everything they touch turns to feces so what could possibly go wrong?/SARC
Another “Come and Take It” flag in the making.
Exactly. When Bush was governor, he approved several electricity plants and we had copious electricity while California kept buying from us. The grid does connect but it is not under Federal control. Under federal control, California could just get the electicity and never pay.
Greg Cesar wants the feds to take over control of Texas independent grid. He doesn’t want it to be free choice of Texans but a take over by the feds. There’s a huge amount of money on the table and I bet you can trace millions being thrown around here.
It's another fault with "renewables" that they have to be sited hundreds or even thousands of miles from the cities where their power is used, (if in fact they generate any, which they mostly don't).
A nuke plant can literally be within the metropolitan footprint of a city, and many were in the beginning. As all coal plants were in the beginning. As nat-gas plants can be if the greenies would stop preventing the construction of gas pipelines.
Ditto...
A large land corridor outside state contr through which the federal government can shepherd columns of illegals to the interior of the country....
“When Bush was governor, he approved several electricity plants and we had copious electricity while California kept buying from us.”
How did this happen with out a major connection to the western grid? Texas has been on its own mostly isolated grid for 100+ years.
The Global Warmist hate Gas as much as they hate coal these days.
If it isn’t solar or wind they are going to fight it, regardless of whether it’s more environmentally friendly than wind or solar or not.
Let those third world kids die of cancer. They don’t care.
There are places where the grid connects out in West Texas into New Mexico. Once it got into New Mexico who knows how they routed it. I don’t know the exact locations but that was a bragging point back then, that California was buying electricity from us.
As a Texan by choice, my reaction is that the Feds can take their transmission lines and shove them where the Sun don’t shine…and then connect it to power.
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