Texas's $33 Billion Power Line Gamble: Who Actually Benefits
Texas is in the middle of building one of the largest transmission infrastructure projects in its history: three 765-kilovolt power line corridors stretching over 1,200 miles across the state. The stated purpose is grid reliability for the Permian Basin. The real story is more complicated, and it involves eminent domain, a generation shortfall nobody’s fixed yet, and a bill that every Texas ratepayer will help pay whether they ever see one of these towers or not. ...