Wow actual infrastructure spending? Awesome!
And it isn’t even infrastructure week!
It is now!!!
Did you sleep through the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill?
Yes? Am I not allowed to be excited about this?
Look, we can more than one here, m’kay?
$1.5 billion won’t actually get you a whole lot.
Better than nothing though. Considering utilities can do this as cap projects, I feel like this money is better spent on bridges/roads.
Who is going to own the infrastructure when it is complete? Outside of like three main utilities, there are no state owned utilities. (Tennessee, Bonneville, and LCRA, I believe).
The projects will enable nearly 1,000 miles of new electric transmission development and 7,100 megawatts of new capacity in Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
So it’s a bailout
the fact that texas’ jank ass disconnected grid is getting a dime of federal money is frustrating. they want their own grid, they can have it. if they want federal dollars to fix what they broke then they should be forced to connect and follow the same rules as everyone else.
I think a small portion of Texas is connected to the federal grid. Maybe this would extend that?
There was an article posted today on /c/texas (Lemmy World, I think) about them actually connecting to the national grid.
I guess there actually was a cold day in hell…
Not a swing state in that list. Don’t they know you only help those that get you elected??
I understand why you would be cynical but don’t understand at all how you came to that conclusion
