• 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.

  • @stewie3128@lemmy.world
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    4110 months 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.

    • swab148
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      810 months ago

      I can only vote blue so many times. If I didn’t laugh, I’d cry.

    • @uis@lemmy.world
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      410 months ago

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