Das Schadenfreude :)
I got paid to fill up both Tesla today. Power is negative right now I am filling both Tesla and all my Powerwalls too.
But EV bad bros, right well given that my Model 3 cost less than the S60 Volvo it replaced it’s been cheaper since mile one.
It takes 250 wh / mi so 1 kWh sends it 4 miles. Retail power is 9 cents per kWh I don’t pay that I have a VPP and get wholesale power to and from the grid with panels feeding the outbound side.
9 cent power is equal to 67 cents per gallon gasoline must be less than that price in a 28 mpg Volvo to equal the same cost per mile as 9 cents per kWh.
Grob Schadenfreude!
Enjoy the suck ICE bros you deserve it. We laughing all the way to the bank.
Scroll down the prices are near the bottom. West Texas wind is sharply negative today and solar is being curtailed to not push spinning inertia off the grid. We dropped a nuke yesterday it’s still off line so synchronous wind turbines and gas turbines are the bulk inertia today.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
https://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html
Only 8934 MW is being not covered by solar & wind today out of 53,000+ MW of demand that’s 83% solar and wind today. Luddites said impossible the power industry said get the F out of our way.
Texas is a 100% for profit grid bid on 15 minute rolling auctions 24/7 with 100% GOP control of all three branches of Texas government for 20+ years so the GOP is the reason we have ERCOT at all.