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On 5/28/2012 10:29 AM, wrote:
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I think I heard on he history channel that Texas is not on the
national grid at all. They are totally self sufficient. (as well as
that works for them)

That may have been accurate for the time (it was history, right? )
but not entirely free of interconnects now.

Just posting from Wikipedia summary for lack of ambition to actually get
the precise time frame...but it's basically correct.

"In 1962, when the Eastern Interconnection was established in its
current form, The Interconnected Systems Group (composed of Southern and
Midwestern utility companies), the PJM Interconnection, and the
Canada-United States Eastern Interconnection (CANUSE) formed the
Interconnection Coordination Committee to recommend an informal
operations structure, which led to the formation of the North American
Power Systems Interconnection Committee (NAPSIC). NAPSIC eventually grew
to also include the Texas Interconnection and most of the companies in
what is today the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC),
operating within the Western Interconnection."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NERC-map-en.svg

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