The power that’s bringing this message to you from my keyboard is....
hydroelectric.
Washington also has three or four refineries, and we are alot closer to Alaska than California is!
So we have to send out a few boats and urge the tankers to come here...
Urge them nicely, I mean!
Power plants matter, but nowhere near as much as the grid. It would simply collapse in 49 states if TX shut off a huge chunk of the power to Cali. Too interconnected and simply would not be able to handle the shifting load. (Not even going to get into the power phase issues except to say “Boom”!)
Again, this isn’t supposition. TX STOPPED that kind of cascading failure before. Causing one would be trivial...