{"id":30278,"date":"2023-11-19T20:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T01:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30278"},"modified":"2023-11-19T20:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T01:09:01","slug":"texplainer-why-does-texas-have-its-own-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30278","title":{"rendered":"Texplainer: Why does Texas have its own power grid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbnails.texastribune.org\/B2OYExJLGYLnRDsF4x--4ztK3ZA=\/1200x804\/smart\/filters:format(webp):quality(75)\/https:\/\/static.texastribune.org\/media\/images\/ERCOT_Region_map.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"139\" \/>Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 the feds. But grid independence has been violated a few times over the years \u2014 not even counting Mexico&#8217;s help during blacko\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2011\/02\/08\/texplainer-why-does-texas-have-its-own-power-grid\/\">Texplainer: Why does Texas have its own power grid?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with \u2014 you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[543,945,513],"class_list":["post-30278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-electricity","tag-rwnj","tag-texas","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30280,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278\/revisions\/30280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}