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Lawmakers at the Aug 19 hearing asked more than once: where did the $100 billion figure come from?
Dr. Brent Bennett calculated it. He explains how $33B in construction becomes a $100B bill, and why the lines still won't fix reliability.
@TPPF @PUCTX @ERCOT_ISO @TXlege
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Why have Texas residential electricity prices risen 72% since 2003—outpacing inflation—while commercial and industrial rates barely budged?
Check out our new analysis on SubStack.
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Life:Powered has a new Substack. If you care about energy policy, electricity prices, and the future of power in Texas, it's worth your time.
Subscribe here: substack.com/@lifepowered
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Retail residential electricity prices in ERCOT rose 72% since 2003—outpacing inflation and price increases for other Texas customers. Meanwhile, commercial and industrial prices barely budged. Why are households bearing the brunt?
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The wind/solar/transmission lobbyist explaining why a $100 billion transmission line is actually good for your electric bill.
#TexasEnergy #TXPowerGrid #txlege
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A coalition of Texas oil & gas producers and landowners joined us in urging the @PUCTX to abate the 765-kV CCN proceedings and allow the Legislature to fully evaluate both the process and whether the current plan is the right solution for Texas.
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CenterPoint commissioned a study to justify $33 billion in 765-kV STEP transmission lines across Texas.
Their own modeling shows the lines would add less than 1% to grid capacity while making winter reliability worse.
Here's what the numbers say. 🧵
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Even with STEP fully built, Texas winter reserve margins fall to -1.1% by 2030. A realistic 1-in-10-year storm still means 72+ hours of outages and $11.2 billion in costs.
$33 billion does not buy Texas out of that risk.
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"The 765-kV project is a land grab and money grab, all wrapped up in climate virtue signaling."
dcjournal.com/a-texas-size-c…
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Build reliable thermal power and don’t put a band-aid on our grid problems with $billions in new transmission projects that double-down on unreliable renewables that got us in this mess in the first place. Deny the applications @PUCTX! #txlege
Texas is about to spend TENS OF BILLIONS on new power lines. But power lines don’t MAKE electricity. They only move it.
Texas doesn’t have a transmission problem. It has a RELIABILITY problem.
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Rather than correcting market distortions and ensuring that the region producing our nation’s energy can power itself, Texas is considering a multi-billion-dollar transmission project to accommodate the shortcomings of intermittent, unreliable energy investments, and the harm they’ve done to our natural gas and coal industries.
Enough is enough.
@TPPF #txlege
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ERCOT hit a new peak demand for electricity on Tuesday, and then on Wednesday, our peak demand grew further - by about the amount of total nuclear capacity. At over 91,300 MWs, our peak demand in ERCOT is now more than California & New York COMBINED. ...and ERCOT is only about 75% of Texas' land mass.
What's most interesting is the shift in risk in our marketplace. Due to the large amount of solar coming online, the historic summer risk is evaporating. However, winter risk - particularly cold winter mornings - is going to be off the charts. Remember, we hit 80,000 MWs during the summer for the first time just four years ago, and we hit 80,000 in the winter shortly after. Stay tuned...
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Excellent piece on the challenges still facing nuclear from @EnergyRealities
Another problem facing nuclear that we cover in our work: the need to value nuclear's reliability instead of paying wind & solar as if they're equal to reliable resources
wsj.com/opinion/trumps-nucle…
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More on Nuclear from Life:Powered: lifepowered.org/the-case-for…
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@VOGTforEnergy sat down with @TPPF's Carson Clayton on TPPF's $100B 765-kV STEP analysis. 43 legislators called for a pause. Thousands agree. This plan creates zero new power. There is a better way. Build gas where it's needed. Texas PUC, We the People are watching. Video below⬇️
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