Who’s afraid of a 300-mile transmission line that could help decarbonize the Southeast?

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Who’s afraid of a 300-mile transmission line that could help decarbonize the Southeast?

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News. When a winter storm knocked out Texas’ power grid in 2021, the scale of the devastation it wrought was exacerbated by a singular fact about the Lone Star State: It has its own electric grid, an “energy island” that has long been uniquely isolated from the rest of the country, with just four transmission lines linking it to neighboring states. When the storm hit, Texas was unable…