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Reps. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have introduced legislation that would connect Texas’s self-contained grid with the rest of the nation, three years after extreme winter weather knocked out the grid and killed hundreds of Texans. Casar and Ocasio-Cortez announced the legislation on Wednesday, the third anniversary of the winter storm. The Connect…
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U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Austin, announced he'll author a bill called the "Connect the Grid Act" alongside U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. While his office is not sharing many details yet about the proposed legislation, the lawmakers said they'll speak more in depth about the particulars during a news conference planned for Wednesday afternoon.
The first-ever Texas Power Grid summit is in Houston, with power companies and investors building new power plants to help fix the power grid.
Officials in Texas were repeatedly warned that the new Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) rules about backup power capacity from last summer would be expensive and could drive up electricity prices