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Texas cemented its role as the nation's top wind power producer Thursday when the Public Utility Commission authorized nearly $5 billion of new transmission lines.
The commission told its staff to create the order picking the middle scenario out of five to harness the wind. A lattice of wires will connect West Texas' and the Panhandle's fast-growing wind farms to power-hungry cities to the east and southeast. Texas already generates nearly 7,000 megawatts of wind, the most of any state, and the new lines will boost that by 18,456 megawatts.
If it works as designed, the additional wind power could cut wholesale power costs by at least $3.4 billion a year, according to research from the Energy Reliability Council of Texas, which manages most of the state's power. Advocates call that number conservative.
full article: Texas PUC OKs $4.93B in wind power transmission lines
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