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RE: Widespread Power Outages in Texas as Renewable Energy FAILS
(02-21-2021 07:47 PM)solohawks Wrote:  Whats the deal with the $5000 power bills I've been reading about?

Texas has an unregulated energy market, you can pick your provider like you picked a long distance provider in the 80s.

Some providers offer a fairly fixed price per KWh, much like you would pay on a muni utility. Some offer time of use billing (.08 per kWh during x hours, .12 per kWh during y hours), and some offer variable pricing based on spot pricing.

ERCOT pays generation partners on a variable spot price per mWh. If you have signed up for a variable plan like griddy you pay based on the spot price. So all week when there was more demand than supply the spot price shot up, hitting $9000 per mWh at times. Griddy passes wholesale spot pricing to consumers, so they are paying $9 per kWH during those peaks, when people on fixed plans are probably paying like .09 per kWH.

Combine that with the low temps, and heat pumps are forced to leverage aux heat which uses a buttload of power. A 15kw aux heater on a heat pump pulls 60 amps. A bunch of houses in Texas probably have two heat pumps.
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