Electricity costs are outpacing inflation two-to-one, and when inflation eventually cools, utility bills likely won't.
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One of Johnson’s primary legislative priorities is to increase the affordability and reliability of Texas’ power grid, but even for an expert, it’s hard to pin down exactly what is contributing to the rising costs of power residents are seeing statewide. Increased demand and increasingly extreme weather have both played a role in destabilizing energy across Texas.
“Distribution is done at the local level, and as populations grow, we have to build new distribution networks,” Johnson said. “And as we saw in Beryl, we have to maintain the existing distribution infrastructure, and that costs money.”
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