Whenever they have a spike in demand, the de-regulated prices go up by several hundred percent. Example

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago

We did get an electric pellet grill last year and we’ve been using it a lot to keep from heating the house. I wonder how much that adds.

A rule of thumb I heard from datacenters is to count every watt of power consumption as 3 to account for the additional demand on the cooling systems and battery backup, so an electric grill probably saves a ton of energy over the oven given it isn't heating up the house

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