{"id":390427,"date":"2026-07-29T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/390427\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:32:09","slug":"poll-who-should-pay-for-grid-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/390427\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Who should pay for grid upgrades?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas lawmakers will take a closer look at the state&#8217;s power grid today. The Senate Business and Commerce Committee will examine everything from the rapid growth of data centers to the billions of dollars being invested in grid reliability. The center of today&#8217;s debate will be on Senate Bill 6. That law was passed last year to prepare the grid for the rapid growth of large power users. Lawmakers will get an update on how the rules are being implemented, including how ERCOT will review large projects before they connect and whether the companies will be required to pay for the transmission and infrastructure needed to serve them.<\/p>\n<p>Who should pay for grid upgrades? ANSWER BELOW to vote in our morning poll and see the results <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIVE<\/a> on CBS Austin This Morning from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas lawmakers will take a closer look at the state&#8217;s power grid today. The Senate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-390427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}