Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Leads 17-State Coalition Fighting Federal Energy Power Grab
Kenneth Artz
October 21, 2022
Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton is leading a coalition of 17 state attorneys general who sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), pushing back against the agencies proposed rule granting increased electrical grid oversight to itself.
In his press release, Paxton states that the proposed rule would compromise the ability of states to determine the most efficient mix of energy sources for their own electrical grids.
Paxton says the new rule will also force states to cover the costs of expensive regional transmission lines to support so-called “green” energy generation, even when such expenditures contradict a state or group of state’s needs and decrease grid efficiency and reliability.
The proposal will also grant FERC the authority to layout and approve expansions of the electrical grid, regardless of states’ needs, desires, and traditional authority to make such decisions on their own.
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