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Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy (fortune.com)
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[–] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am a power grid engineer and we are quoting multiple solar systems with BESS capabilities a month for Texas. It’s not all diesel.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I exaggerate -- but Magic Rock is doing booming business installing strings of natural gas generators at Buc-ee's across the state, and I'm currently dealing with an institutional client who wanted to provide backup power for a satellite campus, and didn't even stop to consider battery-backed PV on the way to asking for a natural gas generator farm.