WindAction | Schumer's $2.4 Trillion Tax Increase
Building long transmission lines to connect solar and wind plants to population centers isn’t cheap. Texans spent about $4.1 billion in 2021 on transmission fees, more than twice as much as in 2011, owing largely to the Lone Star State’s wind and solar build-out. Transmission costs for solar and wind are two to three times higher than for nuclear and fossil-fuel power.