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Greg Casar: “With my bill to force the interconnection of the Texas grid…”

Featuring: Greg Casar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 35

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Published | Video Starts at 11:53

So the United States of America, Texas doesn't do that. Texas is disconnected. 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. And so it's those sorts of ideas that they don't always fall on the left right spectrum necessarily. (11:53–12:00)

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