The Biden administration announced it would put $1.5 billion toward several projects to improve the national power grid, including one meant to connect Texas’s isolated grid with those in the southeastern power markets for the first time.
It comes after months of pressure from Democratic lawmakers to connect the state’s grid, run by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, to other major electric grids within the United States to ensure reliable electricity amid natural disasters.
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