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Casar files bill to connect Texas grid to rest of the country (self.austin)

submitted 9 months ago by reddig33 to c/austin

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https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2024/02/u-s-rep-greg-casar-files-bill-to-connect-texas-grid-to-rest-of-the-country/

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[–] kalpol 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They certainly left out the part where the other grids were having major problems in the snowpocalypse. You can't engineer to consider all edge cases, it is prohibitively expensive.

[–] reddig33 0 points 9 months ago

I think you’re missing the point. When a part of the grid goes down in another state, it doesn’t take the whole system with it, because it’s connected to a larger grid. Not so in most of Texas.

West Texas is connected to a larger grid, unlike the rest of the state. It didn’t have any problems with snowpocalypse and electricity.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/el-paso-electric-winter-storm-2021/