Blackouts Loom In California As Electricity Prices Are “Absolutely Exploding”

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Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability – and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.

Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, issued a “flex alert” that asked the state’s consumers to reduce their power use “to reduce stress on the grid and avoid power outages.”

CAISO’s warning of impending electricity shortages heralds another blackout-riddled summer at the same time California’s electricity prices are skyrocketing.

In 2020, California’s electricity prices jumped by 7.5%, making it the biggest price increase of any state in the country last year and nearly seven times the increase that was seen in the United States as a whole. According to data from the Energy Information Administration, the all-sector price of electricity in California last year jumped to 18.15 cents per kilowatt-hour, which means that Californians are now paying about 70% more for their electricity than the U.S. average all-sector rate of 10.66 cents per kWh. Even more worrisome: California’s electricity rates are expected to soar over the next decade. (More on that in a moment.)

https://www.nationandstate.com/2021...-electricity-prices-are-absolutely-exploding/


What were Libs saying about Texas?
 
Californians are now paying about 70% more for their electricity than the U.S. average

And it’s going up?

Wait till they get 80 million electric cars sucking on the grid.
 
volsrock said:
Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability – and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.

Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, issued a “flex alert” that asked the state’s consumers to reduce their power use “to reduce stress on the grid and avoid power outages.”

CAISO’s warning of impending electricity shortages heralds another blackout-riddled summer at the same time California’s electricity prices are skyrocketing.

In 2020, California’s electricity prices jumped by 7.5%, making it the biggest price increase of any state in the country last year and nearly seven times the increase that was seen in the United States as a whole. According to data from the Energy Information Administration, the all-sector price of electricity in California last year jumped to 18.15 cents per kilowatt-hour, which means that Californians are now paying about 70% more for their electricity than the U.S. average all-sector rate of 10.66 cents per kWh. Even more worrisome: California’s electricity rates are expected to soar over the next decade. (More on that in a moment.)

https://www.nationandstate.com/2021...-electricity-prices-are-absolutely-exploding/


What were Libs saying about Texas?
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YAY, DEMOCRATS!!!
 
volsrock said:
Californians are now paying about 70% more for their electricity than the U.S. average

And it’s going up?

Wait till they get 80 million electric cars sucking on the grid.
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When they shut their transmission lines down last year because of fires some Californians could not evacuate in their Teslas because they could not charge them.
 
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volsrock said:
Californians are now paying about 70% more for their electricity than the U.S. average

And it’s going up?

Wait till they get 80 million electric cars sucking on the grid.
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It isn't electric cars causing that, it's a shortage of electricity and the cost of production. Everywhere, solar and wind has been pushed as the means to make electricity the price of electricity has skyrocketed. Solar in particular is very expensive to produce due to its astounding inefficiency.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Because the Greentards either:

Lied,

or

are idiots,

or

are BOTH.
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iu
 
Meanwhile...


Volkswagen to phase out combustion engines

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/06/27/volkswagen-phase-combustion-engines-early/
 
volsrock said:
Electricity Prices Are “Absolutely Exploding”...California’s electricity prices jumped by 7.5%
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So lets say you were paying $200 a month in electric prices before, you would be paying $215 now... That does not seem like exploding to me. If I can afford the hefty price of $200, I can certainly afford $15 more. Not that anyone likes a price rise, but given the rapid growth that California is having, it really does not seem that bad.
 
volsrock said:
Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability – and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.

Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, issued a “flex alert” that asked the state’s consumers to reduce their power use “to reduce stress on the grid and avoid power outages.”

CAISO’s warning of impending electricity shortages heralds another blackout-riddled summer at the same time California’s electricity prices are skyrocketing.

In 2020, California’s electricity prices jumped by 7.5%, making it the biggest price increase of any state in the country last year and nearly seven times the increase that was seen in the United States as a whole. According to data from the Energy Information Administration, the all-sector price of electricity in California last year jumped to 18.15 cents per kilowatt-hour, which means that Californians are now paying about 70% more for their electricity than the U.S. average all-sector rate of 10.66 cents per kWh. Even more worrisome: California’s electricity rates are expected to soar over the next decade. (More on that in a moment.)

https://www.nationandstate.com/2021...-electricity-prices-are-absolutely-exploding/


What were Libs saying about Texas?
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Personally, I would cut off all electricity and water exported to the SOTC. Let 'em sit in the dark and do some serious navel gazing.
 
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