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Another storm, another electricity failure in Texas: Why can't the energy state deliver reliable electricity? (www.wfaa.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

There is a financial incentive to keep things failure prone, because demand pricing allows them to make the same amount of revenue with whatever (lack of) production is available.

So when only a few neighborhoods still have power they just end up paying for the whole damn city. It’s nuts.