Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy
fortune.com
For about one hour late Friday, day-ahead prices on ERCOT's website jumped as high as $688 per MWh.

lmao lmao.

Reminder that Texas is a separate grid, which is deregulated and financialized, according to neoliberal ideals of efficiency.

  • Dolores [love/loves]English
    31•1 year ago

    fascinating to me that texans can be bled like this in the heat and their minds don’t turn to murder

    • supafuzz [comrade/them]English
      27•1 year ago

      all those guns to protect themselves from “criminals” and they’re too us-foreign-policy-brained to realize that the real criminals robbing them are at the power company