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It's not exactly the free market when ERCOT fixes the price. https://www.griddy.com/post/griddy-update-why-energy-prices-were-sky-high-this-week https://www.gr

• tedunangst 6y ago
  What would the spot price have been in a no regulation, no price cap, no blackout market?
• dralley 6y ago
  It literally doesn't matter if custumers can't afford to pay the fixed price, much less the "true" price. And they can't.
  • nickysielicki 6y ago
    > much less the "true" price. ? I'm not trying to claim that prices didn't naturally rise by a lot, but in that particular situation (linked above), it's very clear that a lot of customers were paying $9/kWh when they could have paid $0.03/kWh. The latter is obviously easier to afford. This event sucked for griddy customers, no doubt. But for the state of Texas and ERCOT to lock the price 300x higher than it would otherwise be is ridiculous.