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Cyclopath
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 Sun Aug 06, 2023 12:56 pm |
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Texas power prices for Sunday surged more than 800% as searing heat pushes demand toward record levels and strains supplies on the state grid.
Electricity prices for the grid rose to more than $2,500 a megawatt-hour for Sunday evening, up from Saturday’s high of about $275, according to data from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the grid operator. The surplus of available power capacity on the grid versus power consumption will narrow to 1.6 gigawatts in the hour ending at 6 p.m. Sunday, a level that can trigger emergency responses, though Ercot has additional reserves it can tap to meet demand.
Ercot has issued a weather watch for Sunday and Monday “due to forecast higher temperatures, higher demand, and potential lower reserves,” the grid operator said in an emailed statement Saturday afternoon. “Ercot will continue to monitor conditions closely.”
Most of the state is under a heat advisory with large swaths of it under an excessive heat warning, according to the National Weather Service. Dallas may see temperatures rise to 107F (42C) on Sunday afternoon with a heat index of 111 for the second consecutive day.
https://archive.li/W6xmq
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Randito
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Randito
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Sun Aug 06, 2023 1:06 pm |
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Freedum!!! Texas has a deregulated power grid.
I'm sure Greg Abbott will blame this on Biden, solar , wind power and undocumented workers.
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Cyclopath
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Cyclopath
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Sun Aug 06, 2023 1:46 pm |
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Good reason to move to a more temperate place with reasonable electric bills, like Washington.
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treeswarper
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treeswarper
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Mon Aug 07, 2023 2:17 pm |
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| Cyclopath wrote: | | Good reason to move to a more temperate place with reasonable electric bills, like Washington. |
Are you crazy? We have too many people here now. Our electricity will not stay "cheap" if more people move here.
Nope, more people should be moving away from the PNW. We are too crowded.
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What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
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BigBrunyon
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I could power thru any big POWER GRID situation. I installed major HORSEPOWER in my home!!
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Bosterson
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Those are prices the utilities (could) get from the power generators, not prices customers would be charged.
| Quote: | | On Sunday evening, the wholesale price for one megawatt-hour of electricity (enough to power about 200 homes) went to about $2,500 on the day-ahead and real-time markets for about an hour. That's about 100 times the normal price. But it was only for a short time. (This is not the first time this has happened this summer nor will it be the last.) And, like I said, that's not the price that you're paying. That's the price your provider is paying — but only if they didn't already have a fixed-price contract with generators. |
https://www.keranews.org/energy-environment/2023-08-07/electricity-prices-in-texas-sometimes-get-really-high-in-the-summer-dont-fear-your-next-bill
Texas's deregulated power market may still be stupid, but it sounds like the legislature may have at least fixed the aspect of it that exposed customers to real time prices during the winter storms of 2021.
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Go! Take a gun! And a dog! Without a leash! Chop down a tree! Start a fire! Piss wherever you want! Build a cairn! A HUGE ONE!
BE A REBEL! YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE!
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