NE ISO -- Even By Their Standards, This Was Outrageous -- September 7, 2022

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Later, 12:05 p.m. CT: link here.

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This was from yesterday morning, early yesterday morning before the daily commute even began.

Electricity in the autumn, in the morning, in New England, trending toward $500 / MWh.

By the way, last night, Tuesday, September 7, 2022, the governor of California implored EV owners not to charge their EVs overnight. Are you kidding me. Two percent of automobiles in California (at most, and I bet that's an exaggeration of what's really being driven) and the grid can't handle charging EVs overnight. And the state will ban all new gasoline car sales by 2035.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to that bullet train? For one thing, the federal government just gave California another $25 million for the project. Isn't this project going to cost something like $100 billion. 

25 million / 75 billion = 0.03%. That is a rounding error.

I can't make this stuff up.

Just think: all that money sent to Ukraine could have bought a bullet train built by the Chinese by now.