A report in RTO Insider says, "Skelly's Grid United Eyes HVDC Intertie in West Texas."
That's right... after his spectacular failure and wasting of $200M on his "Clean Line" projects, Skelly has crawled back out from under the baseboard where he fled to lick his wounds and dream some new impossible dreams to waste more investor money on new transmission projects that will likely never happen. What kind of a fool gives this guy more money? No, don't answer that. I know which fools, but not why they don't simply invest the money in lottery tickets instead. Probably better returns.
Anyhow, our pal Skelly has assembled a new "team" that looks surprisingly like his old "team" and has finally filed an application for his first Grid United project. Well, it's just an application to interconnect to the Texas grid and find such an interconnection necessary in the public interest for now. Skelly may come back later and ask for an order to construct and operate a transmission project. Gosh, this all sounds so incredibly familiar. Didn't Skelly ask the Illinois Commerce Commission for some sort of necessity finding prior to filing an application for the Rock Island Clean Line? His full name must be Michael Bifurcation Skelly. It's like inching into a room where you're not wanted. Bit by bit, and hoping nobody notices you slinking inside.
Skelly claims in his application to the Texas PUC:
Anyhow, our pal Skelly has assembled a new "team" that looks surprisingly like his old "team" and has finally filed an application for his first Grid United project. Well, it's just an application to interconnect to the Texas grid and find such an interconnection necessary in the public interest for now. Skelly may come back later and ask for an order to construct and operate a transmission project. Gosh, this all sounds so incredibly familiar. Didn't Skelly ask the Illinois Commerce Commission for some sort of necessity finding prior to filing an application for the Rock Island Clean Line? His full name must be Michael Bifurcation Skelly. It's like inching into a room where you're not wanted. Bit by bit, and hoping nobody notices you slinking inside.
Skelly claims in his application to the Texas PUC:
Grid United Texas was created as an electric corporation in 2021. Grid United Texas is
wholly owned by Grid United LLC (Grid United) with a mission to unite the U.S. electric grid by
building new long-distance, interregional transmission lines to ensure that Americans have access to low-cost power when and where it is needed.
We, as Americans, say "no thank you." Or maybe it's more like "no way, get outta town!"
So, where is Skelly brain fart 6.0 going to be located?
So, where is Skelly brain fart 6.0 going to be located?
The Pecos West Intertie Project (Proposed Project) is a proposed 1,500 MW HVDC interconnection between ERCOT and the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC). The Proposed Project is proposed with an HVDC converter station at the LCRA TSC Bakersfield Switching Station in Pecos County, Texas, and an HVDC converter station at an EPE Station in El Paso County, Texas. Grid United Texas has evaluated interconnection at EPE’s Caliente Station and Newman Station, but the EPE interconnection will be determined following further consultation with EPE and the U.S. Army regarding a potential crossing of Fort Bliss (for the Newman Station interconnection). An approximately 250 to 300 mile ±525 kilovolt (kV) overhead HVDC tie line (Tie Line) will connect the HVDC converter stations at each end of the Proposed Project.
Looks like Skelly has learned absolutely nothing at all from his first routing failure, and wants to add not crossing a military base to his resume.
Oh hey, would you look at that? Part of Skelly's old "team" ended up on the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
Oh hey, would you look at that? Part of Skelly's old "team" ended up on the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
Revenge is a sweet, sweet dessert, isn't it, Jimmy? I certainly hope Jimmy isn't going to recuse himself from this case. After all, I like a good laugh now and again.
But wait... there's more... Grid United is also in the "initial planning phase" of a completely different project, the North Plains Connector, that plans to rip through some of the most beautiful scenery in this country in Montana and North Dakota. I was just there. Is nothing sacred?
And, say, remember when Skelly recently bought a parcel of land in Tennessee located adjacent to an electric substation?
Yup. He's crawling among us again. Where's my flyswatter?
But wait... there's more... Grid United is also in the "initial planning phase" of a completely different project, the North Plains Connector, that plans to rip through some of the most beautiful scenery in this country in Montana and North Dakota. I was just there. Is nothing sacred?
And, say, remember when Skelly recently bought a parcel of land in Tennessee located adjacent to an electric substation?
Yup. He's crawling among us again. Where's my flyswatter?
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