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LOL your villains aren't even clever ROFL I wonder how that played out You get to do that ONCE. If i were the bad guy in a Dukes-Of-Hazzard/Smokey & The Bandit-grade farce involving an orangutan and Daisy Dukes, I would make moves like this.All across Texas, grid operators were moving as quickly as they could, blacking out more and more neighborhoods, but they were running out of options.
When ERCOT and the PUC realized what was happening, officials decided to bypass the market and, on Monday evening, manually set prices at the maximum of $9,000 per megawatt hour. (By comparison, the average hourly price in 2020 was $25.73.)