I can’t really answer your question but the leftists on Twitter are jumping on the “it’s all about money” bandwagon.
I don’t see how rolling blackouts = more money for the power companies. Wouldn’t they be making more by keeping the electricity on?
At this point, I still believe the demand is simply outweighing the supply. It’s very cold in pretty much the whole state.
The concept is known as "the Big Lie" and it's commonly used by regulated industries like utilities to raise rates. You induce a shortage, and then people won't complain when you ask to raise rates so that you can prevent another shortage. Water companies do it by draining reservoirs lower than they need to be. Then they have to ask people to conserve. Then they ask for rate hikes to expand their operations, using the shortages as proof they need to expand.
I don't know whether this is that or not. I'd understand if the power outages were caused by ice storms bringing down power lines. But to just say it's overloading the grid due to cold weather, when Northern States do just fine, raises questions.
Short term they get less money, but the subsequent rate hikes more than make up for that.
That's because leftists are incredibly stupid. The only way this is connected to money is that the government has made it enormously expensive to build an adequate supply of power through rogue actions by EPA and their tree-hugging friends.
Leftists love to hamstring their enemies and then point to them walking funny as a sign of their own superiority.
That’s what they did in the 2008 “financial crisis” where their housing mandates created the enormous bubble that almost collapsed the mortgage industry, and they turned around and blamed it on “capitalism.”