El Paso is the only Texas city that is part of the Western interconnect power grid. The rest of our state has its own outdated power grid thanks to officials trying to escape federal regulations. Thanks to them, 2.5 million Texans have no power
El Paso is not much better. We are powered by a power grid that has given us the worst air quality in the state. This isn’t anything to brag about
Also, keep in mind that we are locked into a monopoly by El Paso Electric in their control of our power grid. Whatever they want to charge us, wherever they want to pollute, we are completely at their will
The Permian Basin is having horrible emission events because the oil patch is not weatherized.

El Paso Electric gets its fracked gas from here.
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