reply on: The Political Takeover of the Texas Electricity Market \ stacker news ~econ

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It's funny that this was only two days ago because there are outages in Austin today. It's entirely reminiscent of california.

I haven't looked at the weather in Austin.
My guess is 100 F and AC overload

Oh I guess just one part of town then.

In California, peak electricity hours are 5 pm to 8 pm during summer

Yep