Bidens Energy Dept. Rejected Houstons Request to Imporove Grid a Year Before Hurricane Beryl [Video]

President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy rejected Houston’s request to strengthen its energy grid in 2023.

Houston entered day five of power outages after Hurricane Beryl.

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CenterPoint Energy sought the money from a new $10.5 billion Department of Energy program that is helping utilities, states and local agencies protect the electric grid from the growing threats of extreme weather and climate change.

“I don’t understand how the grant application could be rejected,” University of Houston energy economist Ed Hirs said. “This is the home of the petrochemical part of America. I mean, for God’s sakes, what’s DOE thinking?”

“A grant to CenterPoint to make the service in and around Houston more resilient is truly a matter of national security,” Hirs said.

CenterPoint has faced criticism for widespread power outages after Hurricane Beryl, a Category 1 storm, hit the area Monday morning, downing electric poles and wires across the nation’s fourth-largest …