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Grid Locked
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Texas Energy Market
Texas operates on its own grid to avoid federal regulation, making it the only energy islandin country. There's purposely almost no excess energy on the grid, which means that when there's a huge surge in demand, a blackout isn't just likely, it's like, youow, almost a certainty yand because it's an energy island, when the state's grid does go down,. you're not going to be able to get energy from neighboring states the way you can in the rest of the country. So i'm certan to see how this all fits together.
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