On Wednesday evening, spot electricity prices topped $5,000 per megawatt-hour, up more than 200 times from Wednesday morning.

  • Texas power prices soared 20,000% Wednesday evening amid another brutal heat wave.

  • Spot electricity prices topped $5,000 per megawatt-hour, up more than 200 times from Wednesday morning.

  • The state’s grid operator issued its second-highest energy emergency, then later said conditions returned to normal.

  • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
    27·
    1 年前

    Many Texas leaders (and other Taxans) see any energy source that’s not oil and gas based as “part of the radical liberal agenda.”

    • FaeDrifter@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      1 年前

      Well yeah, being a manly man means being inconsiderate and destructive to the environment.

      Oh, you care about nature? You want to be a steward of the Earth? Sounds gay. And gay men get beat to death and sent to hell.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
      3·
      1 年前

      Sure they do, then they get run the fuck over by the big money Capitalists who are building it anyway. Texas is #1 in renewable energy production for a reason.

    • Wirrvogel@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      1 年前

      Many Texas leaders (and other Taxans) see any energy source that’s not oil and gas based as “part of the radical liberal agenda.”

      Solar energy is also decentralized, so people/villages can have their own source of energy and the profits won’t go to one monopoly and that can’t happen, because free market - yes - but not actual free like this.

    • Chocrates@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 年前

      They do, but capitalism is gonna win this one. Solar is cheap and sunshine is plentiful so it is still getting built. ERCOT is a disaster, most of it on purpose but the legislation that set it up.
      Would probably be a good idea to hook up to the neighboring power grids too for emergencies… like every day in the summer is turning in to.