Bill advanced to back up Texas electric grid

The Texas Senate advanced a package of bills aimed at making the state’s electric grid more robust, building on last session’s reforms in the wake of winter storm Uri. Likely the most important of these is SB 6, by Georgetown Senator Charles Schwertner, which would add 10,000 megawatts of generation capacity – enough to power about two million Texas homes – as a last resort in...

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