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Nancy4Thinking 🤔🧠 retweeted
These laws gotta change, these industries have to carry their own weight, this is slavery.
Over the last couple of days several people have asked why their electricity bill suddenly jumped this month.
Here’s the simple version.
Your bill has two main parts: the price of the electricity itself, and a separate charge for the power lines that carry it to your house. That second charge is what went up.
Two things hit at the same time this month.
You used a lot more power. July and August were brutally hot. People ran their air conditioners almost nonstop. A lot of homes used far more electricity than they did in the spring. When you use more, the bill goes up.
The charge for the power lines went up on September 1. That fee pays for transmission lines, poles, and the equipment that moves electricity across Texas. Demand for power is growing: more homes, more businesses, data centers, and heavy industry. Companies like Oncor and CenterPoint build those lines, then collect the cost from regular customers. You and me.
State law allows that. Texas rules let these line companies recover the cost of building and upgrading the grid through charges on everyone’s bill. They can start collecting as the projects go in, not years later. Large new users may sign interconnection deals and pay some of their own hookup costs up front, but the big statewide lines are still largely paid for by all of us. Households end up carrying a large share of Texas growth on the monthly bill.
If you live in the Houston area (CenterPoint):
That power-line charge jumped about 28% on September 1. On a hot-weather bill, that alone can add $20 to $40 or more, even if your electricity company and energy rate did not change.
This is not a one-month blip. Texas is planning a major line buildout for West Texas and the Permian Basin. Those projects are expected to add more cost to bills statewide in the years ahead.
Look at two things on your bill:
🧾How much electricity you used this month versus last year
🧾The line that says transmission, delivery, or TDU
That’s usually where the extra money went. Switching electricity companies will not remove that power-line charge. It’s the same no matter who you buy your electricity from. We the People have been made responsible for carrying this cost.
For those that are watching the 765kv shenanigans and think it does not apply to you... look at that second line mentioned again. Largest lines ever built in Texas means higher cost and YOU will be expected to pay it.
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Over the last couple of days several people have asked why their electricity bill suddenly jumped this month.
Here’s the simple version.
Your bill has two main parts: the price of the electricity itself, and a separate charge for the power lines that carry it to your house. That second charge is what went up.
Two things hit at the same time this month.
You used a lot more power. July and August were brutally hot. People ran their air conditioners almost nonstop. A lot of homes used far more electricity than they did in the spring. When you use more, the bill goes up.
The charge for the power lines went up on September 1. That fee pays for transmission lines, poles, and the equipment that moves electricity across Texas. Demand for power is growing: more homes, more businesses, data centers, and heavy industry. Companies like Oncor and CenterPoint build those lines, then collect the cost from regular customers. You and me.
State law allows that. Texas rules let these line companies recover the cost of building and upgrading the grid through charges on everyone’s bill. They can start collecting as the projects go in, not years later. Large new users may sign interconnection deals and pay some of their own hookup costs up front, but the big statewide lines are still largely paid for by all of us. Households end up carrying a large share of Texas growth on the monthly bill.
If you live in the Houston area (CenterPoint):
That power-line charge jumped about 28% on September 1. On a hot-weather bill, that alone can add $20 to $40 or more, even if your electricity company and energy rate did not change.
This is not a one-month blip. Texas is planning a major line buildout for West Texas and the Permian Basin. Those projects are expected to add more cost to bills statewide in the years ahead.
Look at two things on your bill:
🧾How much electricity you used this month versus last year
🧾The line that says transmission, delivery, or TDU
That’s usually where the extra money went. Switching electricity companies will not remove that power-line charge. It’s the same no matter who you buy your electricity from. We the People have been made responsible for carrying this cost.
For those that are watching the 765kv shenanigans and think it does not apply to you... look at that second line mentioned again. Largest lines ever built in Texas means higher cost and YOU will be expected to pay it.
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Nancy4Thinking 🤔🧠 retweeted
A recommendation: Perform your due diligence. Research and formulate your argument based on fact and provide legitimate sources to back it up. That goes a lot further than emotional responses.
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Nancy4Thinking 🤔🧠 retweeted
To public officials, “silence means consent.”
And…
Filing beats posting!
A comment in Project 58317 becomes part of the official record that PUCT staff and commissioners must carry forward; a post in a group chat becomes nothing.
Right now roughly 40 Texans have spoken on paper about who pays for data-center power, how much water these sites draw, and where 765 kV lines get routed.
That number is the only measure of public concern the agency can legally point to.
If the record stays thin, the silence gets read as consent, and the interconnection terms and audit findings get written without you in them.
Your name, your county, the project near you, a few honest paragraphs as a PDF. It takes minutes, it lasts permanently, and it lands right beside the Governor’s own letters.
December is the deadline!
Thank you @Nancy4Thinking
Hey Texas, if a data center or a giant transmission line is showing up near you, this is the conversation that you will want to be certain you participate in.
This morning the Public Utility Commission of Texas posted an update in Project 58317. PUCT is a state agency. It regulates electric utilities across Texas. ERCOT is one of the grids in this state, but not the only one. If you live here, this file is about your bill, your water, your land, and what gets built next door to your home.
Here’s the short version of what’s going on.
PUCT just filed a new roadmap for the large-load rules coming out of Senate Bill 6. Some of those rules are already adopted. They’re now drafting a standard interconnection agreement; basically the contract data centers will sign to hook up and the terms for who pays. At the same time, Governor Abbott’s audit is still running. The first official write-up is being aimed at December. That’s the date to beat.
The Governor has also told other agencies to lock arms on this:
Data centers are supposed to pay for their own electric infrastructure, not pass it to households.
Projects in the queue are supposed to be checked: power, water, ownership, tax breaks, impact on neighbors.
On Sept. 14 he told the Texas Water Development Board to enforce water-use reporting and work the water side of the audit.
Yesterday he told TCEQ to stop issuing data-center permits until those audits are done.
Those letters are already in this docket. Your comment can sit right next to them if you follow the steps listed in this post.
Here’s the part that should bother you. As of today there are 69 filings in 58317. Since the August audit started, only about 40 to 45 public comments have actually been filed. Meanwhile a lot more people are saying they oppose these projects at town halls, in group chats, and in the comments. Talking about it online feels like doing something. It isn’t the official record. If it isn’t filed, the agency can move on like you never spoke.
This is how regular people talk to their government. Not a petition that disappears. Not a rant that only your friends see. A short letter in the docket that staff and commissioners have to keep.
It takes a few minutes:
Write what you know. Your name, your city or county, the project near you, and what you’ve seen; higher bills, water worries, a substation, a 765 kV route, trucks, noise, whatever is real for you. Save it as a PDF. Don’t put account numbers or other private details in it. These filings are public.
Go to interchange.puc.texas.gov/fi…
Hit Begin, check the box, and type Control Number 58317
Put in your contact info. Filing Party is just your name.
Filing Type: Comments
Description can be simple: Public comments on data centers, 765 kV, and the Governor’s audit
Upload the PDF and submit. Keep the confirmation email.
You can read everything already filed by searching 58317 on the Interchange.
If you live in Texas and this is in your backyard, or you just don’t want households paying for someone else’s megawatts: FILE IT . Then send this to one neighbor who has been loud online and quiet on paper. December is when the first audit packet comes together. Get your name in the file before that.
Do you really want your government to be able to say they gave you a chance to participate and only 40 people did? Or to say that the internet was all bots that were concerned and not real people because real people did not show up to the conversation? Have you submitted your concerns to the Docket? If not... what are you waiting for?
December, that is your deadline. ⏰️
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Nancy4Thinking 🤔🧠 retweeted
Texans Act Now!
Hey Texas, if a data center or a giant transmission line is showing up near you, this is the conversation that you will want to be certain you participate in.
This morning the Public Utility Commission of Texas posted an update in Project 58317. PUCT is a state agency. It regulates electric utilities across Texas. ERCOT is one of the grids in this state, but not the only one. If you live here, this file is about your bill, your water, your land, and what gets built next door to your home.
Here’s the short version of what’s going on.
PUCT just filed a new roadmap for the large-load rules coming out of Senate Bill 6. Some of those rules are already adopted. They’re now drafting a standard interconnection agreement; basically the contract data centers will sign to hook up and the terms for who pays. At the same time, Governor Abbott’s audit is still running. The first official write-up is being aimed at December. That’s the date to beat.
The Governor has also told other agencies to lock arms on this:
Data centers are supposed to pay for their own electric infrastructure, not pass it to households.
Projects in the queue are supposed to be checked: power, water, ownership, tax breaks, impact on neighbors.
On Sept. 14 he told the Texas Water Development Board to enforce water-use reporting and work the water side of the audit.
Yesterday he told TCEQ to stop issuing data-center permits until those audits are done.
Those letters are already in this docket. Your comment can sit right next to them if you follow the steps listed in this post.
Here’s the part that should bother you. As of today there are 69 filings in 58317. Since the August audit started, only about 40 to 45 public comments have actually been filed. Meanwhile a lot more people are saying they oppose these projects at town halls, in group chats, and in the comments. Talking about it online feels like doing something. It isn’t the official record. If it isn’t filed, the agency can move on like you never spoke.
This is how regular people talk to their government. Not a petition that disappears. Not a rant that only your friends see. A short letter in the docket that staff and commissioners have to keep.
It takes a few minutes:
Write what you know. Your name, your city or county, the project near you, and what you’ve seen; higher bills, water worries, a substation, a 765 kV route, trucks, noise, whatever is real for you. Save it as a PDF. Don’t put account numbers or other private details in it. These filings are public.
Go to interchange.puc.texas.gov/fi…
Hit Begin, check the box, and type Control Number 58317
Put in your contact info. Filing Party is just your name.
Filing Type: Comments
Description can be simple: Public comments on data centers, 765 kV, and the Governor’s audit
Upload the PDF and submit. Keep the confirmation email.
You can read everything already filed by searching 58317 on the Interchange.
If you live in Texas and this is in your backyard, or you just don’t want households paying for someone else’s megawatts: FILE IT . Then send this to one neighbor who has been loud online and quiet on paper. December is when the first audit packet comes together. Get your name in the file before that.
Do you really want your government to be able to say they gave you a chance to participate and only 40 people did? Or to say that the internet was all bots that were concerned and not real people because real people did not show up to the conversation? Have you submitted your concerns to the Docket? If not... what are you waiting for?
December, that is your deadline. ⏰️
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Nancy4Thinking 🤔🧠 retweeted
Action, action, action on TX data centers. Let your voice be heard.
Hey Texas, if a data center or a giant transmission line is showing up near you, this is the conversation that you will want to be certain you participate in.
This morning the Public Utility Commission of Texas posted an update in Project 58317. PUCT is a state agency. It regulates electric utilities across Texas. ERCOT is one of the grids in this state, but not the only one. If you live here, this file is about your bill, your water, your land, and what gets built next door to your home.
Here’s the short version of what’s going on.
PUCT just filed a new roadmap for the large-load rules coming out of Senate Bill 6. Some of those rules are already adopted. They’re now drafting a standard interconnection agreement; basically the contract data centers will sign to hook up and the terms for who pays. At the same time, Governor Abbott’s audit is still running. The first official write-up is being aimed at December. That’s the date to beat.
The Governor has also told other agencies to lock arms on this:
Data centers are supposed to pay for their own electric infrastructure, not pass it to households.
Projects in the queue are supposed to be checked: power, water, ownership, tax breaks, impact on neighbors.
On Sept. 14 he told the Texas Water Development Board to enforce water-use reporting and work the water side of the audit.
Yesterday he told TCEQ to stop issuing data-center permits until those audits are done.
Those letters are already in this docket. Your comment can sit right next to them if you follow the steps listed in this post.
Here’s the part that should bother you. As of today there are 69 filings in 58317. Since the August audit started, only about 40 to 45 public comments have actually been filed. Meanwhile a lot more people are saying they oppose these projects at town halls, in group chats, and in the comments. Talking about it online feels like doing something. It isn’t the official record. If it isn’t filed, the agency can move on like you never spoke.
This is how regular people talk to their government. Not a petition that disappears. Not a rant that only your friends see. A short letter in the docket that staff and commissioners have to keep.
It takes a few minutes:
Write what you know. Your name, your city or county, the project near you, and what you’ve seen; higher bills, water worries, a substation, a 765 kV route, trucks, noise, whatever is real for you. Save it as a PDF. Don’t put account numbers or other private details in it. These filings are public.
Go to interchange.puc.texas.gov/fi…
Hit Begin, check the box, and type Control Number 58317
Put in your contact info. Filing Party is just your name.
Filing Type: Comments
Description can be simple: Public comments on data centers, 765 kV, and the Governor’s audit
Upload the PDF and submit. Keep the confirmation email.
You can read everything already filed by searching 58317 on the Interchange.
If you live in Texas and this is in your backyard, or you just don’t want households paying for someone else’s megawatts: FILE IT . Then send this to one neighbor who has been loud online and quiet on paper. December is when the first audit packet comes together. Get your name in the file before that.
Do you really want your government to be able to say they gave you a chance to participate and only 40 people did? Or to say that the internet was all bots that were concerned and not real people because real people did not show up to the conversation? Have you submitted your concerns to the Docket? If not... what are you waiting for?
December, that is your deadline. ⏰️
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Nancy4Thinking 🤔🧠 retweeted
Hey #Texas, now is your opportunity - don't let it pass you by. Read @Nancy4Thinking, she's right, people get loud on social but THIS is where it counts. Here's how to respond:
Hey Texas, if a data center or a giant transmission line is showing up near you, this is the conversation that you will want to be certain you participate in.
This morning the Public Utility Commission of Texas posted an update in Project 58317. PUCT is a state agency. It regulates electric utilities across Texas. ERCOT is one of the grids in this state, but not the only one. If you live here, this file is about your bill, your water, your land, and what gets built next door to your home.
Here’s the short version of what’s going on.
PUCT just filed a new roadmap for the large-load rules coming out of Senate Bill 6. Some of those rules are already adopted. They’re now drafting a standard interconnection agreement; basically the contract data centers will sign to hook up and the terms for who pays. At the same time, Governor Abbott’s audit is still running. The first official write-up is being aimed at December. That’s the date to beat.
The Governor has also told other agencies to lock arms on this:
Data centers are supposed to pay for their own electric infrastructure, not pass it to households.
Projects in the queue are supposed to be checked: power, water, ownership, tax breaks, impact on neighbors.
On Sept. 14 he told the Texas Water Development Board to enforce water-use reporting and work the water side of the audit.
Yesterday he told TCEQ to stop issuing data-center permits until those audits are done.
Those letters are already in this docket. Your comment can sit right next to them if you follow the steps listed in this post.
Here’s the part that should bother you. As of today there are 69 filings in 58317. Since the August audit started, only about 40 to 45 public comments have actually been filed. Meanwhile a lot more people are saying they oppose these projects at town halls, in group chats, and in the comments. Talking about it online feels like doing something. It isn’t the official record. If it isn’t filed, the agency can move on like you never spoke.
This is how regular people talk to their government. Not a petition that disappears. Not a rant that only your friends see. A short letter in the docket that staff and commissioners have to keep.
It takes a few minutes:
Write what you know. Your name, your city or county, the project near you, and what you’ve seen; higher bills, water worries, a substation, a 765 kV route, trucks, noise, whatever is real for you. Save it as a PDF. Don’t put account numbers or other private details in it. These filings are public.
Go to interchange.puc.texas.gov/fi…
Hit Begin, check the box, and type Control Number 58317
Put in your contact info. Filing Party is just your name.
Filing Type: Comments
Description can be simple: Public comments on data centers, 765 kV, and the Governor’s audit
Upload the PDF and submit. Keep the confirmation email.
You can read everything already filed by searching 58317 on the Interchange.
If you live in Texas and this is in your backyard, or you just don’t want households paying for someone else’s megawatts: FILE IT . Then send this to one neighbor who has been loud online and quiet on paper. December is when the first audit packet comes together. Get your name in the file before that.
Do you really want your government to be able to say they gave you a chance to participate and only 40 people did? Or to say that the internet was all bots that were concerned and not real people because real people did not show up to the conversation? Have you submitted your concerns to the Docket? If not... what are you waiting for?
December, that is your deadline. ⏰️
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Nancy4Thinking 🤔🧠 retweeted
!!!TEXANS!!!⤵️
Hey Texas, if a data center or a giant transmission line is showing up near you, this is the conversation that you will want to be certain you participate in.
This morning the Public Utility Commission of Texas posted an update in Project 58317. PUCT is a state agency. It regulates electric utilities across Texas. ERCOT is one of the grids in this state, but not the only one. If you live here, this file is about your bill, your water, your land, and what gets built next door to your home.
Here’s the short version of what’s going on.
PUCT just filed a new roadmap for the large-load rules coming out of Senate Bill 6. Some of those rules are already adopted. They’re now drafting a standard interconnection agreement; basically the contract data centers will sign to hook up and the terms for who pays. At the same time, Governor Abbott’s audit is still running. The first official write-up is being aimed at December. That’s the date to beat.
The Governor has also told other agencies to lock arms on this:
Data centers are supposed to pay for their own electric infrastructure, not pass it to households.
Projects in the queue are supposed to be checked: power, water, ownership, tax breaks, impact on neighbors.
On Sept. 14 he told the Texas Water Development Board to enforce water-use reporting and work the water side of the audit.
Yesterday he told TCEQ to stop issuing data-center permits until those audits are done.
Those letters are already in this docket. Your comment can sit right next to them if you follow the steps listed in this post.
Here’s the part that should bother you. As of today there are 69 filings in 58317. Since the August audit started, only about 40 to 45 public comments have actually been filed. Meanwhile a lot more people are saying they oppose these projects at town halls, in group chats, and in the comments. Talking about it online feels like doing something. It isn’t the official record. If it isn’t filed, the agency can move on like you never spoke.
This is how regular people talk to their government. Not a petition that disappears. Not a rant that only your friends see. A short letter in the docket that staff and commissioners have to keep.
It takes a few minutes:
Write what you know. Your name, your city or county, the project near you, and what you’ve seen; higher bills, water worries, a substation, a 765 kV route, trucks, noise, whatever is real for you. Save it as a PDF. Don’t put account numbers or other private details in it. These filings are public.
Go to interchange.puc.texas.gov/fi…
Hit Begin, check the box, and type Control Number 58317
Put in your contact info. Filing Party is just your name.
Filing Type: Comments
Description can be simple: Public comments on data centers, 765 kV, and the Governor’s audit
Upload the PDF and submit. Keep the confirmation email.
You can read everything already filed by searching 58317 on the Interchange.
If you live in Texas and this is in your backyard, or you just don’t want households paying for someone else’s megawatts: FILE IT . Then send this to one neighbor who has been loud online and quiet on paper. December is when the first audit packet comes together. Get your name in the file before that.
Do you really want your government to be able to say they gave you a chance to participate and only 40 people did? Or to say that the internet was all bots that were concerned and not real people because real people did not show up to the conversation? Have you submitted your concerns to the Docket? If not... what are you waiting for?
December, that is your deadline. ⏰️
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Nancy4Thinking 🤔🧠 retweeted
Globalist @GregAbbott_TX wants you to support his fake audit because it’s NOT a NO to mass data center proliferation… it’s a YES!
And it gets the data center developers what they want… an excuse to install loud and polluting generators on-site.
So that when your power goes off, the surveillance state’s stays on.
It’s another bait and switch!
So following Abbott’s plan is exactly what NOT to do.
Hey Texas, if a data center or a giant transmission line is showing up near you, this is the conversation that you will want to be certain you participate in.
This morning the Public Utility Commission of Texas posted an update in Project 58317. PUCT is a state agency. It regulates electric utilities across Texas. ERCOT is one of the grids in this state, but not the only one. If you live here, this file is about your bill, your water, your land, and what gets built next door to your home.
Here’s the short version of what’s going on.
PUCT just filed a new roadmap for the large-load rules coming out of Senate Bill 6. Some of those rules are already adopted. They’re now drafting a standard interconnection agreement; basically the contract data centers will sign to hook up and the terms for who pays. At the same time, Governor Abbott’s audit is still running. The first official write-up is being aimed at December. That’s the date to beat.
The Governor has also told other agencies to lock arms on this:
Data centers are supposed to pay for their own electric infrastructure, not pass it to households.
Projects in the queue are supposed to be checked: power, water, ownership, tax breaks, impact on neighbors.
On Sept. 14 he told the Texas Water Development Board to enforce water-use reporting and work the water side of the audit.
Yesterday he told TCEQ to stop issuing data-center permits until those audits are done.
Those letters are already in this docket. Your comment can sit right next to them if you follow the steps listed in this post.
Here’s the part that should bother you. As of today there are 69 filings in 58317. Since the August audit started, only about 40 to 45 public comments have actually been filed. Meanwhile a lot more people are saying they oppose these projects at town halls, in group chats, and in the comments. Talking about it online feels like doing something. It isn’t the official record. If it isn’t filed, the agency can move on like you never spoke.
This is how regular people talk to their government. Not a petition that disappears. Not a rant that only your friends see. A short letter in the docket that staff and commissioners have to keep.
It takes a few minutes:
Write what you know. Your name, your city or county, the project near you, and what you’ve seen; higher bills, water worries, a substation, a 765 kV route, trucks, noise, whatever is real for you. Save it as a PDF. Don’t put account numbers or other private details in it. These filings are public.
Go to interchange.puc.texas.gov/fi…
Hit Begin, check the box, and type Control Number 58317
Put in your contact info. Filing Party is just your name.
Filing Type: Comments
Description can be simple: Public comments on data centers, 765 kV, and the Governor’s audit
Upload the PDF and submit. Keep the confirmation email.
You can read everything already filed by searching 58317 on the Interchange.
If you live in Texas and this is in your backyard, or you just don’t want households paying for someone else’s megawatts: FILE IT . Then send this to one neighbor who has been loud online and quiet on paper. December is when the first audit packet comes together. Get your name in the file before that.
Do you really want your government to be able to say they gave you a chance to participate and only 40 people did? Or to say that the internet was all bots that were concerned and not real people because real people did not show up to the conversation? Have you submitted your concerns to the Docket? If not... what are you waiting for?
December, that is your deadline. ⏰️
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Hey Texas, if a data center or a giant transmission line is showing up near you, this is the conversation that you will want to be certain you participate in.
This morning the Public Utility Commission of Texas posted an update in Project 58317. PUCT is a state agency. It regulates electric utilities across Texas. ERCOT is one of the grids in this state, but not the only one. If you live here, this file is about your bill, your water, your land, and what gets built next door to your home.
Here’s the short version of what’s going on.
PUCT just filed a new roadmap for the large-load rules coming out of Senate Bill 6. Some of those rules are already adopted. They’re now drafting a standard interconnection agreement; basically the contract data centers will sign to hook up and the terms for who pays. At the same time, Governor Abbott’s audit is still running. The first official write-up is being aimed at December. That’s the date to beat.
The Governor has also told other agencies to lock arms on this:
Data centers are supposed to pay for their own electric infrastructure, not pass it to households.
Projects in the queue are supposed to be checked: power, water, ownership, tax breaks, impact on neighbors.
On Sept. 14 he told the Texas Water Development Board to enforce water-use reporting and work the water side of the audit.
Yesterday he told TCEQ to stop issuing data-center permits until those audits are done.
Those letters are already in this docket. Your comment can sit right next to them if you follow the steps listed in this post.
Here’s the part that should bother you. As of today there are 69 filings in 58317. Since the August audit started, only about 40 to 45 public comments have actually been filed. Meanwhile a lot more people are saying they oppose these projects at town halls, in group chats, and in the comments. Talking about it online feels like doing something. It isn’t the official record. If it isn’t filed, the agency can move on like you never spoke.
This is how regular people talk to their government. Not a petition that disappears. Not a rant that only your friends see. A short letter in the docket that staff and commissioners have to keep.
It takes a few minutes:
Write what you know. Your name, your city or county, the project near you, and what you’ve seen; higher bills, water worries, a substation, a 765 kV route, trucks, noise, whatever is real for you. Save it as a PDF. Don’t put account numbers or other private details in it. These filings are public.
Go to interchange.puc.texas.gov/fi…
Hit Begin, check the box, and type Control Number 58317
Put in your contact info. Filing Party is just your name.
Filing Type: Comments
Description can be simple: Public comments on data centers, 765 kV, and the Governor’s audit
Upload the PDF and submit. Keep the confirmation email.
You can read everything already filed by searching 58317 on the Interchange.
If you live in Texas and this is in your backyard, or you just don’t want households paying for someone else’s megawatts: FILE IT . Then send this to one neighbor who has been loud online and quiet on paper. December is when the first audit packet comes together. Get your name in the file before that.
Do you really want your government to be able to say they gave you a chance to participate and only 40 people did? Or to say that the internet was all bots that were concerned and not real people because real people did not show up to the conversation? Have you submitted your concerns to the Docket? If not... what are you waiting for?
December, that is your deadline. ⏰️
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“Sometimes Slow is Fast”
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Large projects, like the 765kV transmission lines in Texas, involve many stakeholders and many complex relationships. At stake is our economy, our security, and our deep-seeded Texas values. This is a big, Texas-sized bet and it is worth taking time to get it right.
We have so much going for us as a state, controlling our own grid and being energy rich. We can move faster than any other state. We can be quick to address disasters and to mitigate future threats. But that same ability to move fast can become a liability resulting in misaligned goals when ignoring key constituents’ concerns.
Most people don’t know that Texas residential and small business rate payers are paying 178% higher rates than Texas commercial rates. That is the highest percentage rate difference in the nation! It is also a case of misaligned goals created by federally subsidized, now stranded, renewable wind and solar investments, transmission infrastructure costs to move that stranded power, long-term commercial power-purchase contracts to achieve lower cost for big business and a positive ESG score, and a market model that still doesn’t differentiate between the value of 24-hr dispatchable generation and intermittent renewable generation. Would you value a car that you can only use 7 hours a day the same as one that is available 24 hrs a day?
Even so, there are critical resilience issues that were never addressed by ERCOT, the PUC, or the transmission service providers. These are issues currently being studied by the newly formed Grid Security Commission. The good news is that it is not too late to take these issues into consideration. But a pause may be justified on technical grounds, and yes, “Sometimes Slow is Fast”, particularly when it involves the entire state’s health, safety, and livelihood. Let the commission do their job.
We encourage Chairman Gleeson and Governor Abbott to consider the following: The 765kV project, as approved has…
1) No protection from GIC harmonics
2) Risk of total collapse
3) Texas Utilities designing to an outdated standard
4) Potential for transformers becoming harmonics generators
5) Has not considered that the cost for prevention is a tiny fraction of the total project cost
((Read the like for the expansion on these points))
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Van Zandt County is leading the state once again.
We were the first to put a restraining order on a battery storage project. The first to pass a green-energy moratorium. Now, our commissioners court is set to vote October 7 on a proclamation AGAINST Sharia law; a stand no other Texas county has taken.
Congressman @SelfForCongress , @brentmoney , and @SenatorBobHall have been clear: Sharia stands in conflict with our constitutional republic. Texas law already forbids courts from enforcing any foreign or religious rule that violates American rights. This vote puts Van Zandt on the record for one law, the Constitution.
Get informed, understand what Sharia Law actually is on Monday, October 5th at 6 p.m., the Republican Club of Van Zandt County is hosting a free screening of Remember the Alamo: Don’t Sharia My Texas at Victory Life Church, 16040 State Hwy 64, Ben Wheeler.
Guest speaker: John Bennett, former Marine and combat veteran.
Armor yourself with truth and knowledge. Then, use the voice our Constitutional Republic gives you at Commissioners Court on October 7. Show up. Speak up. Keep Van Zandt County free.
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Moss Landing Battery Site in California is on Fire AGAIN. Plumes billowing in real time. Watch this link below to see more.
piped.video/live/06SSI2q8ndo…
Read the lab reports here from the fire in 2025:
Source: SJSU Blogs share.google/eVBlFh2dpUPNIbF…
Source: Elkhorn Slough share.google/1PA2MWHPQa3KU18…
Source: Moss Landing Marine Laboratories share.google/sU6hAhkPJFDwSgG…
Nearby resident's are saying the plumes are darker than on camera. This makes my stomach sick. These poor people.
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