“The need for more transmission in Texas is not a matter of opinion. It is in the grid operator’s annual report, in the Independent Market Monitor’s findings, and in the statutes the Legislature approved. Texas can keep paying for congestion and hoping generation appears behind a constraint, or it can build the network that delivers power to the Texans counting on it.” — Bill Lauderback, Executive Chair, Texans for Responsible Infrastructure Investment zurl.co/9yapx

The demand for more electricity in Texas is not a forecast — it is already here. Grid experts and a decade of legislative and regulatory action all point the same direction: the state needs more capacity to move power, and new generation alone will not supply it. zurl.co/8EKar

A large gas turbine ordered today arrives near the end of the decade, and a big power transformer is not far behind. Texas cannot legislate a factory slot into existence — which is why equipment already on order for the 765kV backbone is an asset the state should not forfeit. zurl.co/tCcdL

“Every year Texas spent re-studying this problem is a year now showing up in the form of congestion, of a two-year interconnection wait, and of $125 million spent on rented generators instead of production. We can reform the process, and we should. What we cannot do is study our way back to 2019 and expect the grid to meet the state’s pressing needs.” — Bill Lauderback, Executive Chair, Texans for Responsible Infrastructure Investment zurl.co/hXcyc

“Texas spent a decade telling the world to come build here, and the world listened. The fabs, the plants, the shipyards — they are under construction right now. The only question left is whether we finish the wires before the customers show up, or after we have explained to them why we didn’t keep up.” — Bill Lauderback, Executive Chair, Texans for Responsible Infrastructure Investment zurl.co/3lVIg

The “Doom Loop of Re-Study” Could Stall the Texas Miracle zurl.co/BHyjn

Texas is adding fabs, factories, shipyards and refining capacity faster than the wires that serve them. Experts around the state say the same thing: the growth is real, the customers are ready to pay, and to keep our economy strong, Texas has to build more transmission to keep up with demand. zurl.co/C1PQ7

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A recent @BakerInstitute panel described a manufacturing and industry expansion that started in the Permian Basin, spread across the Texas Triangle, and is now the reason the grid needs capacity it does not yet have. zurl.co/6Kymi @GHPartnership

The demand is from manufacturing and industry, and it came first. @BakerInstitute researcher Michael Maher told the a recent town hall that between 2021 and 2025, West Texas — driven largely by the oil sector’s switch from diesel to electric power — accounted for almost all growth in industrial electricity use in Texas. zurl.co/wez1j

“Every major grid in America has looked at the same growth numbers and reached the same conclusion Texas reached. Now that Texas has steel in the ground and money in the factory queue, a delay would buy us a worse place in line instead of a better answer. And the bill for that would land on every Texan with an electric meter.” — Bill Lauderback, Executive Chair, Texans for Responsible Infrastructure zurl.co/xLdAM

At a Rice University @BakerInstitute town hall in Houston on September 2, a researcher, an economist, a grid developer and the head of the city’s business organization kept returning to the same driver behind the state’s transmission investments: a manufacturing and industrial expansion that will not wait for the wires. zurl.co/xkntU @DallasFed

Put directly, delay would translate into more risk for Texans, as growing demand continues to outpace capacity. zurl.co/Q3iSG

“Texans are already paying for the lines we haven’t built — about $2.6 billion in congestion last year alone. That money buys nothing. It doesn’t build a tower and it doesn’t make the grid one megawatt stronger. Texas can keep writing that check every year, or it can invest once in a backbone that pays the state back for decades.” — Bill Lauderback, Executive Chair, Texans for Responsible Infrastructure Investment  zurl.co/kw9W2

Congestion is a bill Texans already pay, not a theory. zurl.co/ZhAt3 #texasgrid

After three years of decline, congestion on the Texas grid reversed course in 2025 — and the bill lands on every customer, not just the ones near the bottleneck. zurl.co/4Qklf

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Welcome to our newest member, @TX_BLC zurl.co/yntrj

“The question before Texas is not whether we will need to pay to invest in our state’s grid. We are paying for it now — in congestion charges, and in the risk of rotating outages next summer. The real choice is whether we pay for infrastructure upgrades our growing state needs, or pay even more for the consequences of doing nothing.” — Bill Lauderback, Executive Chair, Texans for Responsible Infrastructure Investment zurl.co/6b8Lx

Generation versus transmission is a false choice. ERCOT's COO testified that reliability cannot be maintained without more transmission even if more generation is built. zurl.co/eN3sX #texasgrid