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Biden administration putting $1.5B into four electric power projects — including interconnection for Texas’s isolated grid

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The Biden administration is putting $1.5 billion toward four electric power projects, including a connection to the Southeast for Texas ’s isolated grid, it announced on Thursday .

The four projects are expected to enable 7,100 megawatts of new electric power capacity in Louisiana , Maine , Mississippi , New Mexico , Oklahoma and Texas .

That's enough energy to power more than 710 million LED light bulbs.