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The death toll was in the hundreds.
Power lines in Houston, Texas.Photo: Brandon Bell (Getty Images)
A new multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project could mitigate a similar power emergency in the future.
Its not just Texans who would benefit from more transmission.
But at least two major hurdles stand in the way.
We have substantial challenges within markets, within generators, that are trying to stop the building of transmission.
Building more transmission lines allows producers to produce more wind energy by giving it somewhere to go.
This would be problematic, wrote Dicharry.
They gave us an amendment to verify that they were excluded, Seabaugh said.
Kirby, the Entergy spokesperson, confirmed this.
Entergy Louisiana suggested to the bill author some language that would address this concern.
Renz said the project has not received any federal or state incentives.
Bringing on transmission to make it curb peak demand is vitally important.
However, if we look at who has been the biggest objector, its been utilities, Lewis said.
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