Entergy power project both necessary, disputed

AUSTIN — Many East Texas residents agree that the Southeast Texas Area Reliability Project is necessary for power reliability, but those same residents believe that routing the power lines across Lake Livingston is a bad idea.

Entergy Texas Inc., an electric utility company providing service to more than half a million customers in 27 counties, plans to construct a new single-circuit 500 kilovolt transmission line approximately 160 miles in length over East Texas.

The project was approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Texas, which also will decide the project’s route, affecting Jasper, Montgomery, Newton, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Tyler and Walker counties…

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