{"id":1200555,"date":"2023-11-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200555"},"modified":"2023-11-07T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:00:00","slug":"texas-screwed-up-power-grid-is-on-the-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200555","title":{"rendered":"Texas\u2019 Screwed-Up Power Grid Is on the Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/001b6d3e82567e31b68ec248571b3c9c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Texas will vote on whether to give the oil and gas industry billions to make its barely-working power grid more reliable while ignoring the benefits of renewable energy. This comes two years after a <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-real-reason-for-texas-rolling-blackouts-1846279110\">winter storm shut off power for millions<\/a> of Texans, and a heat wave this past summer that pushed the <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/texas-electric-grid-is-straining-amid-heat-wave-ercot-1850557066\">power grid to its\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/texas-screwed-up-power-grid-is-on-the-ballot-1850999522\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Gizmodo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/texas-screwed-up-power-grid-is-on-the-ballot-1850999522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas\u2019 Screwed-Up Power Grid Is on the Ballot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas will vote on whether to give the oil and gas industry billions to make its barely-working power grid more reliable while ignoring the benefits of renewable energy. This comes two years after a winter storm shut off power for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,110],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1200555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gizmodo","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-gizmodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}