▲ 728 ▼ Texas power prices soar 20,000% as brutal heat wave sets off emergency (markets.businessinsider.com) submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 158 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 child) Transmission lines have maximums and the Texas power grid is a shambles. Here's a recent article that explains a little more: https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2023-09-08/ercot-texas-electric-grid-congestion-at-risk-energy-emergency permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] protist@mander.xyz -10 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm abreast of this specific grid situation, and there're absolutely improvements that need to be made, and also no, it's not "a shambles." Yes, there was a bottleneck this time, but also everyone's power stayed on just fine permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago Oh cool, so nobody died this time. Give it a few months when they start dying of exposure. At least once a year I see stories about Texas' power grid shitting the bed and people dying as a result. How's all that freedom going? permalink fedilink source parent
[+] protist@mander.xyz -10 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm abreast of this specific grid situation, and there're absolutely improvements that need to be made, and also no, it's not "a shambles." Yes, there was a bottleneck this time, but also everyone's power stayed on just fine permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago Oh cool, so nobody died this time. Give it a few months when they start dying of exposure. At least once a year I see stories about Texas' power grid shitting the bed and people dying as a result. How's all that freedom going? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago Oh cool, so nobody died this time. Give it a few months when they start dying of exposure. At least once a year I see stories about Texas' power grid shitting the bed and people dying as a result. How's all that freedom going? permalink fedilink source parent