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Rep. Greg Casar, D-Austin, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, Wednesday announced the “Connect the Grid Act.”

PERMIAN BASIN (KMID/KPEJ) – A group of Congressmen are leading a new effort to connect Texas to national power grids. This comes three years after a winter storm crippled the state’s power grid, leaving millions in the dark during freezing temperatures. Nearly 250 people died during the outage. Now, Texas Congressman Greg Casar is joining […]

Democratic Texas lawmakers are looking to “break up” with blackouts.

Our Bout With Drought: In good news, our historically severe drought conditions seem to be improving. In December, the Barton Springs/Edwar

The Connect the Grid Act would require the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to connect to neighboring grids.

The Connect the Grid Act would require ERCOT to connect the Texas power grid to the nation's major electric grids.

The former Austin City Council member's Connect the Grid Act would mandate that ERCOT create new interconnections with neighboring power grids.

Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require Texas' power grid to connect to the nation's major grids, an effort aimed at ensuring the…

If the bill passes, here’s the timeline how the transition would take place.

The first-ever federal bill that would connect Texas's energy systems to the national grid was introduced in the House on Wednesday.