Texas Democrat makes push to tie Texas to national power grid

Texas has long stood alone in many aspects of American culture. From hospitality to all of us claiming Texas as a Republic in the middle of a union, we tend to beat to the sound of our own drum. That is true as well in the utility realm as well. The state has been an island grid for years with no real issues until the 2021 Winter Storm. That spurned more and more wind and solar energy, and since then, it has been all downhill.

It has led to plenty of calls for Texas to tie into the national grid, and that includes now Democrat and self-proclaimed socialist Congressman Greg Casar. He has signed a letter to the Department of Energy calling for Texas to give up control of the grid. In addition, he wants the state to tie into the Western grid, which includes California. We all know California is oh so stable when it comes to power situations.

Energy reporter Robert Bryce says though Texas really does not have a reason to do that.

"There are island grids around the world that work fine...just because our grid is not interconnected, that does not have anything to do with the functioning of the grid," he says.

The idea alone of tying into the Western grid is laughable, considering how many outages California is known. Interconnecting our failing infrastructure with a failing grid just screams disaster.

To be fair, Texas has had a fair share of issues with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Every summer we have seen constant calls for conservation. But the majority of the issues have boiled down to one simple thing: green energy.

The push has come due to gasps from the climate change crowd, who say green energy is good. They claim it will, somehow, help stop storms from forming or 'being so strong.' But if the climate really is changing, adding gigantic propellers does not seem like a viable solution to the problem.

"If we are facing these extremes...it is the height of foolishness to make our most important network dependent on the weather," he says. "We need weather resilient systems, not weather dependent systems."

Bryce adds that our massive population growth will require a need to focus on gas-fired power instead.