Texas Lawmakers Want to Halt Plan to Build High-Voltage Transmission Lines Across the State

Texas lawmakers want to halt plan to build high-voltage transmission lines across the state

ODESSA — A growing chorus of Texas lawmakers is calling on the state’s electric grid managers and utility regulators to halt an expansive and increasingly controversial project to build transmission lines that would cut through several thousand acres of private…

Texas Holding Consumers Hostage for $33 B in a High-Voltage Heist - Energy News Beat

Texas ratepayers are on the hook for a $33 billion high-voltage transmission expansion that critics call a classic power grab—funneling guaranteed returns to transmission monopolies, condemning thousands of acres of private land, and primarily enabling more intermittent wind and solar that many of today’s assets won’t economically or physically outlast another decade. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) 765-kV Strategic Transmissio…