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Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Texas will want to connect up to the U.S. power grid following unprecedented winter weather in the Lone Star State, leading to millions of people without power last week.
Gates appeared on
Fox News Sundaywith Chris Wallace following Gov. Greg Abbott s criticism of alternative energy sources, such as wind energy, he claims led to the power shortage following historic snowstorms across the state. Well, it’s not not at all true, Gates said. The failure to weatherize some of the nuclear sensors, the natural gas plants, and even some of the wind are, are responsible for their power shortage. And the wind is a tiny part of it.
ERCOT, which is not a state agency but a nonprofit run by an unelected board, would not release a list of power generation facilities that failed this week.
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The battle over a power line in Maine features a television advertisement depicting felled pine trees in the wooded U.S. state paired with noir images of a corporate tower in modern Bilbao, near the Guggenheim art museum. A voiceover declares: “A good deal for Spain, and a bad deal for Maine.”
The Spanish utility company Iberdrola S.A.’s political action committee has spent almost US$15 million to promote its US$950 million New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) electric transmission project which would run for more than 230 kilometres. Yet last month opponents won a partial stay of construction in court and an activist group filed papers to hold a state referendum to revoke its permits.
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