NEWS: Texas’s first 765-kV lines have gotten the OK from the state PUC.

What happened: Officials have allowed Oncor to kick off construction on a roughly 400-mile East-West project. This marks the first approval in the state’s controversial $33B transmission plan to bring more electrons West (where the oil & gas industry is driving booming demand).

Meanwhile, state AG Ken Paxton is calling for a pause on TX‘s Tx expansion, claiming that “there must be clear guardrails from the Legislature for this scale of buildout.”