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Texas power prices soared 20,000% Wednesday evening amid another brutal heat wave.
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Spot electricity prices topped $5,000 per megawatt-hour, up more than 200 times from Wednesday morning.
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The state’s grid operator issued its second-highest energy emergency, then later said conditions returned to normal.
Hey little buddy, how’s the independent grid working out for you?
Jesus Christ.
Texas: Big government is evil!
Also Texas: Big government, the climate change weve been denying is boiling us please save our freedom grid
I want a book that’s just passive aggressive notes signed by Jesus
"Bet it all on the Steelers huh? Bet your wife is going to be real happy about that.
-Jesus Christ"
"Oh you sure showed that group of children who’s boss yes sir.
-Jesus Christ"
Pray for Elon to help the poor
As a lib, I feel so owned.
I’m glad I live in Washington state with our cheap renewable energy.
You are kind of owned, since these red states fucking up just means that more of your tax money will go to saving these idiots from themselves through federal aid
As another fellow Washingtonian, I’m getting pretty tired of subsidizing willful stupidity.
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.
Man, red states are much different here and there. Here red state means communist state, in US it is exact opposite.
honestly it’s not willful for a lot of residents there because of gerrymandering instead of redistricting.
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But does it includes government-protected monopolies?
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If you had the same amount of heat, you’d have more sunlight hours and thus better conditions for solar power. If you had more wind, wind power etc.
There’s no scenario anywhere in the world where the entire energy consumption and more can’t be supplied via renewable sources. All that’s missing is the political will to go against the fossil fuel industry.
You ever been east of the mountains? It’s going to be over 90 where my parents are today. It was over 100 for quite a bit this summer.
Texas actually does better in the renewable energy front than you may expect.
A quarter of the state’s energy is produced through wind and solar. The biggest bottleneck preventing more wind adoption is the capacity of transmission lines up and the lack of energy storage.
The advantage of natural gas is that it can be dry up pretty much anywhere and isn’t dependent on weather.
The biggest problem Texas has right now regarding energy (and housing costs, and inflation, and municipal planning, and traffic, etc) is its extremely rapid population growth.
Yes, the heat wave is historic and ERCOT is awful, but even in perfect weather the grid is being stressed from the sheer number of people and businesses moving here
Don’t forget natural gas lines can freeze. Remember Ted Cruz going to Cancun? Pepperidge farm remembers.
While a lot of shitty things happened regarding ERCOT and that freeze (and ESPECIALLY the lack of response to prevent the next 2 freeze emergencies), Snovid was a perfect storm. And again a lot of the issues were from transmission problems when lines iced over and tress took out transmission lines.
We’re lucky the 2023 freeze was as short as it was, because it’s impact on the grid was almost as severe even though it was shorter and not nearly as cold. It was an ice event instead of snow, and had a much larger impact on trees and therefore transmission lines. Some people were without power for 3-4 times as long as with the 2021 storm despite it being a much milder event.
Ummmm they use cardboard for their new construction sheathing, new construction r value code is 30-39 compared to 49-60 for Washington.
Welcome to Cascadia, land of trees, salmon, and hydroelectric dams.
and while its not renewable and there’s a big question on how effectively its stored, nuclear power is sustainable.
Heard a piece of NPR about how our green grid is actually having a lot of trouble keeping up because climate change is fucking up our rainfall, and hence our hydro electric. Even if you do it right, you end up paying for the greed of everyone else.
Are you idiots Great Again yet?
hey the rest of the american grids are fine. Texas didn’t want to follow certain governemnt regulation so they made their own grid.
I was talking directly to the women hating, book banning, brown people fearing , maga-loving, selfish ignorant racists that vote in Texas.
Love it.
I remember my parents planning to retire to Texas about 10 years ago, I told 'em “that state’s going to be unlivable b/c of climate change pretty soon, don’t buy land there”.
They’re Republicans so pish-tosh. They have spent weeks this summer essentially unable to be outside anywhere.
Retiring somewhere where you can be burned by the pavement if you fall over? That’s an interesting choice.
Mmm, pan seared grandma
Big Weather man, they’re part of the deep state that’s silencing conservative voices by stopping them from going outside.
Maybe stop electing Republican orcs and your state will improve.
I’m trying so hard… I swear, our ballot boxes should be called wishing wells to better curb my hopes…
The problem is Texas Democrats and those who’d stand against Republicans don’t vote. I don’t feel like digging out the exact numbers, but the 2022 gubernatorial race shows it best. Abbott got nearly 80% of the votes Trump did in 2020. Beto got 60% of the votes Biden did. Republicans show up, Democrats don’t. Until that changes. nothing in this state will change.
Wow, I’m so shocked that Democrat turnout is depressed in *checks notes… states that go out of their way to gerrymander so only the Republicans can win, and use authoritarian tactics and putting Yes Men in key positions, have laws like it being illegal to give water to people standing in the voting line, and in general violently repress their Democratic constituents.
Gee I wonder why those votes might be depressed! It certainly has nothing to do with a system that has already been rigged against them! /s
Being real though, that’s purposeful on the part of Republicans. They want Democrats to lose hope. Makes their job easier.
You know what’s been shocking to me in my last two elections? How much fear I felt turning in my ballot that someone would attack me after. I’d rather die than lose my freedom to vote blue, but I’d rather not die…
Texas is so gerrymandered that even when new maps are made anyone opposing Republicans gets annihilated by districting.
Democrats protest, Republicans vote. One of the primary lessons of high school AP Government 25 years ago.
The problem is dems keep running Beto instead of making one of the Castro brothers run.
Voter suppression is big in Texas.
Why you gotta insult orcs like that?
As a former Texan this breaks my heart. Alot of innocent and less well off people will suffer due to entrenched corruption.
I moved away because of this exact kind of shit.
Where’d u go? We came up to Portland.
Philadelphia, it’s paradise.
Oh, again?
People will soon be living in Texas no power year around when they throttle you and charge you thousands for power every month of the year because either A) ITsSS TWOooh HAaAWwTT or B) TtThEEee GGRiiIdD IIsSSnnTT Winterized. What a joke
If Texas is anything like Mississippi, you’re not allowed to live without electricity. You’ll be evicted, AKA homeless…
Good thing they got rid of all those pesky regulations or the poors would be using the power.
Texas power prices soared 20,000% Wednesday evening amid another brutal heat wave.
Makes sense. I’m told everything’s bigger in Texas.
This has been going on for years now. I feel bad for those that suffer there because of this, but if you choose to willingly live there when you have the means to leave, I don’t feel sorry for you anymore. It’s the ones unable to leave that I truly feel bad for, those that don’t have any other choice.
Meanwhile in reality:
Texas is 1st in the nation in renewables (thanks Obama).
3000Mw battery storage averted this emergency, and there’s a ton more of that on the way (thanks Biden).
Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma have the best onshore wind power potential. Pretty good solar too. And they’re tapping in to it.
Has Turd Cruz fled to cooler vacation spots yet?
Turd Cruds spends most of his time in DC eating fancy $300 per person lunches.
Eat the rich.
Reminds me of Enron. There’s plenty of electricity generated, but they claim the grid is too old to get it to customers. Things that make you go hmmm.
