On Wednesday evening, spot electricity prices topped $5,000 per megawatt-hour, up more than 200 times from Wednesday morning.

  • Texas power prices soared 20,000% Wednesday evening amid another brutal heat wave.

  • Spot electricity prices topped $5,000 per megawatt-hour, up more than 200 times from Wednesday morning.

  • The state’s grid operator issued its second-highest energy emergency, then later said conditions returned to normal.

  • LibertyLizard
    6·
    9 months ago

    I didn’t mean geothermal was entirely new but traditionally it has been limited to very specific geologic conditions which have largely already been developed. Newer technology (ironically pioneered by oil and gas drilling) has recently made many more sites possibly economical. But as with the other things I listed, these new types of geothermal plants are still somewhat unproven and expensive. I know they’re being investigated but so far very few have been built.

    • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
      2·
      9 months ago

      I wonder if they could drill down and capture the heat from the hotspot under Missouri.

      Alaska, The Rockies, Yellowstone, the Sierras and the Cascades are all no brainers.

      And Hawai’i for obvious reasons.

      • LibertyLizard
        1·
        9 months ago

        I’m not familiar with the geology of Missouri but it mostly depends on how deep you need to go. The deeper the more expensive it will be to build.

        • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
          1·
          9 months ago

          Don’t need too, you just need to boil water (or ammonia, or propane, etc) to spin turbines and Yellowstone does that on the surface