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Oh, Texas. Your power grid is an endless source of amusement (for people who don’t have to rely on it, of course).
Losing power for three days, but knowing my energy bill will be twice as high as last months is always a cool feeling.
Smartass remarks aside, you have my sympathies.
I mean, I work in the O&G industry. Y'all have every right to be as smartass as you please.
so what's the reason they're the only state independent from the national grid?
they just know better?
guess that's why they call it the lone star state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection
There's a whole article on it in Wikipedia, but the TL;DR; boils down to "If we're not connected nationally then we don't have to abide by national regulations".
That's ostensibly a cost-saving, assuming you don't think too hard about what's being regulated. But its also a great opportunity to price gouge consumers.
sounds about right