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Electricity is key to 30 million Texans today. By 2030, 35 million people will call Texas home, with work, family and community important.
Texas is the #1 energy producing state.
How does the energy boom impact the 150 predominantly rural Texas counties outside the Golden Triangle?
Why the increasing demand for electricity? Bring business to Texas, leverage our resources to build for tomorrow.
The 2024 Governor’s office small business update highlighted the importance of Water, Workforce and Electric power.
The Realtor’s matra of “Location, Location, Location” means Water, Power and Land today. Power heavy loads, like data centers and battery storage, benefit by locating close to abundant and ever increasing wind and solar generation.
For 150 counties outside the DFW to Houston to San Antonio triangle growth is hard to come by, yet Water, Power and Land are driving substantially investment in North Texas to power Texas future. These investment offer the potential of lower taxes for residents as tax rolls increase.
Infrastructure supporting the Oklaunion’s operation as a coal generating station no longer used to generate power, stimulated the creation of the 345 kV grid encircling much of ERCOT’s northern area carrying the power of locally abundant wind and solar to nearby load readily.
Solar, Wind, Battery, Hyper Data Centers, Amonia plants want to connect where power is available — good times on the prairies of North Texas.
At their Feb. 21, 2025 meeting, Wichita county commissioners agreed to create a reinvestment zone for the planned 2026 construction of a $200 million utility scale “solar and battery energy storage project” to be built on about 800 acres in Burkburnett, TX — 10 miles north of Wichita Falls, on border with Oklahoma.
And elsewhere in Texas as Governor Abbot asked and received a plan for Texas to be a leader in Small Modular Reactors (SMR). Chancellor Johm Shorp of Texas A&M University system has offered space at the 2,400 acres of Rellis for 4 SMR companies.
Texas grid is different than 20 years ago. Deregulation under state regulation, not FERC oversight speeds changes to our marketplace.
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