Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy
Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy
For about one hour late Friday, day-ahead prices on ERCOT's website jumped as high as $688 per MWh.
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Click bait story that doesn't paint the complete picture.
What is the complete picture?
What are you, some kind of communist?
/S in case
Texans aren’t actually paying those increased prices, not directly anyway.
Even if they are, it isn't necessarily bad thing. If the demand is going above supply you need to decrease demand or increase supply. If you increase cost you decrease demand.
However, the article above doesn't give enough information to draw conclusions and it doesn't even have sources.
or just get a plant of them newfangled sodium battery stacks. they're all the rage
Seriously, what are we missing?
They cropped the edges from the article photo.
The entire background. The article is vague and is designed to get people upset. They don't give any more information other than some crazy sounding percentages.
good thing you're only possibly linux. If you were fully linux i'd be retiring from life.