Texas officials say progressives backing the Green New Deal should look to their state’s success to learn about the importance of transmission in ramping up the use of renewables.

Texas has been successful where the rest of the country hasn’t in building a vast network of transmission power lines to deliver its massive wind energy resources to consumers across the state.

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