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by Havoc 694 days ago
I know Texas wants their independence & politics etc but its a bit silly not to have at least an emergency linkage to the bigger grids around to help catch falls like this. Even a fairly modest 500MW or whatever.
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They have interconnects with Mexico. They relied on a 300MW interconnect during the 2011 winter storm outage.