• 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.

  • krayj@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    As another fellow Washingtonian, I’m getting pretty tired of subsidizing willful stupidity.

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      Red states are a luxury we can’t afford anymore. They need to pull themselves up by their freedom bootstraps and start turning a profit, or the spigot turns off.

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      1 year ago

      honestly it’s not willful for a lot of residents there because of gerrymandering instead of redistricting.