A 300-Mile Transmission Line Could Help Decarbonize the Southeast. Power Companies Want to Stop It
When a wintertime stormknocked out Texas ’ power gridin 2021 , the scale of the devastation it wrought was exacerbated by a rum fact about the Lone Star State : It has its own electric gridiron , an “ energy island ” thathas long been unambiguously isolated from the sleep of the state , with just four transmission lines connect it to neighboring states . When the violent storm hit , Texas was ineffectual to reassign enough emergency world power from other electricity grocery to keep the lights on ....