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kleinbl00  ·  1026 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Texas Electric Grid Failure Was a Warm-up

LOL your villains aren't even clever

    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.

ROFL I wonder how that played out

    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.)

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.