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Deep in the heart of Texas’ collapsing power grid
- woliveirajr 6y ago> Grids began to integrate because the easiest places to generate power— near large coal fields, for example —weren't necessarily close to large population centers. In general it's not common to generate power near to large cities. Nuclear? Hydroelectric Power? Wind Farms? Some might be near cities and intermitent, but transmission lines are a thing.