Planned outages highlight energy growing pains in North Texas

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The leader of the statewide grid operator and local public officials tell NBC 5 that keeping energy infrastructure at pace with new home construction in North Texas is one of their key challenges.

living in Sanger to use less power, staff wrote,"Your efforts to conserve power reduced the strain on our equipment so that we did not have to implement any rolling power outages."

"New transmission lines are one of the biggest challenges we're facing here in the county as the county. As the county continues to grow we need to expand transmission lines," said Denton County Judge Andy Eads. "You got to have the transmission lines to bring large quantities of power to the new users," said Eads.

"Transmission lines are important because they bring in power from the generating source here to the local provider," said Eads.

 

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