The debate over Texas’s 765-kV transmission lines is heating up, and your wallet is caught in the middle. Last Friday, the Public Utility Commission of Texas held a hearing on the 765-kV Strategic Transmission Expansion Plan (STEP), and this Friday, the Commission will decide whether to approve or deny the northernmost line of the three...
Addressing the Environmental Challenges of Wind, Solar, and Energy Storage in Texas Written by: Brent Bennett, Ph.D. and Cullen Neely Download the full paper here. Key Points Using wind and solar to produce electricity requires 22 times more land for wind and roughly seven times more land for solar than comparable fossil fuel generation resources....
An Economic Assessment of the 765-kV Strategic Transmission Expansion Plan And Alternative Approaches to Enable Cost-Effective Growth WRITTEN BY Brent Bennett, Ph.D. Download the full research paper here. KEY POINTS • The need for the 765-kV STEP is driven by an overbuilding of wind and solar across Texas, particularly in West Texas and South Texas,...