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.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    1203·
    1 year ago

    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

    • krayj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      802·
      1 year ago

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

      • stewie3128@lemmy.world
        351·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • uis@lemmy.world
          51·
          1 year ago

          Man, red states are much different here and there. Here red state means communist state, in US it is exact opposite.

      • Fog0555@lemmy.world
        281·
        1 year ago

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

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      1311·
      1 year ago

      Never should have let the southern states back in like we did.

      We should have hanged every last confederate.

      It’s not too late though.