How about $450 for 1 day, or an $8,000 electric bill for residential home service for Feb. I guess a company, Griddy, sells power for a flat $10 rate plus wholesale cost. Rates jumped 9,000% or whatever. Any power traders here? How can we get in on that! https://www.yahoo.com/news/5-152-power-bill-texas-192316981.html
What are you yammering about.... the spittle is coming out of your mouth and you're not making any sense again. Unlike third-world states like California and Texas we don't have issues with rolling blackouts. This ice storm is just like the one we had last week. Some lines go down, they get repaired and people get power restored. Same story every winter here. We don't have rolling blackouts due to electric supply problems.
Democratic state legislator mentions that five years ago Republicans blocked a bill requiring that power plants in Texas be winterized.
You would be arguing that NC should be winterized and preparing better and not suffering downed powered lines if you did not live there or if DeSantis or Trump were was in charge.
Meanwhile, here in New England where we suffered 7-8 days of lows in the single digits overnight, we are doing just fine. If Texas was too fucking stupid to spend the little bit of extra money to "winterize" their NG plants and wind turbines? Well, it's their own fucking fault. Living in a region with four seasons really gives you life experience in the world of the living. You know, the contiguous 48 live in a temperate zone. CA, TX and FL better get their shit together, and move to the NorthEast, where shit is real.
Oh, and one other thing... The angle of the sun is getting strong very quickly in Texas with each passing day. So when the jet stream suddenly lifts out of the region, and TX is back to 70 degrees combined with that strong sun? A rapid melt. It's called "flash flooding". How come we see no warnings about that yet? It's coming. Mark it an 8(0), dude.
Wow... Is this true...only one power company manages most of the one power in the state of Texas ??? Company name ERCOT. In fact, the governor is blaming Ercot for the problems but in reality if his state only has one power company managing almost all the power...that's too many eggs in one basket. wrbtrader