pro_grammer@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTexas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energyfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square166fedilinkarrow-up1727arrow-down112
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minus-squareprofdc9@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·4 months agoThis is Enron-scale manipulation. Someone’s ripping off the public and making a mint with the help of the regulators.
minus-squareramble81@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·4 months agoJerry Jones, yeah same one that owns the Cowboys, made almost $1B off the price hikes durning the big freeze that almost crippled the grid.
minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-24 months agoThe vast majority of Texans are on contracted plans and pay a consistent price per kilowatt. That doesn’t mean prices won’t skyrocket when that contract renews though
This is Enron-scale manipulation. Someone’s ripping off the public and making a mint with the help of the regulators.
Jerry Jones, yeah same one that owns the Cowboys, made almost $1B off the price hikes durning the big freeze that almost crippled the grid.
The vast majority of Texans are on contracted plans and pay a consistent price per kilowatt.
That doesn’t mean prices won’t skyrocket when that contract renews though