… wave or a winter storm and your power starts going down, you can pull in power from neighboring states. Yeah. So the United States of America, Texas doesn't do that. Texas is disconnected [from other power grids]. So when we had this giant winter storm, we couldn't pull in power from places where there was sun. With my bill to force the interconnection of the Texas grid, over 80% of those blackouts would have been avoided. (11:46–11:48)
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Asserts that Texas is not interconnected with other power grids in the U.S.
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