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.

  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    6212·
    1 year ago

    Aaahhh, the free market economy at work without limits, without government planning, regulations, or interference.

    Government regulations bad! It means we can’t squeeze our customers, we can’t fuck up on an hourly basis, we can’t be dicks!

    And in before the commies start… No. Bad dog! Get out with your “we need to become Communist hippie communes!” comments, please

    We need to put reasonable rules and limits to a capitalist system. Regulate big companies, regulate infrastructure, tax the rich, use the money for social platforms

    • SCB@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      In all fairness, Texas has an incredibly weird, idealistic, view of the value of market forces and their government utterly fails in its job as a result.

      It’s not just power lines. It’s everything. They distort their market on ideological lines and then assume that’s the best case.