On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 16:52:51 -0500, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

In article ,
says...

How can there be an electric charge of one weeks of power that exceeds
abot 3 times what it should be for a year ?

Deregulation.

Simply put, as the supply of electricity approached zero, the price of electricity
approached infinity.

Cindy Hamilton



Looks like that should somehow come under the price gouging laws. Where
if due to some disaster prices can not rise much above the normal price
range.
Anywhere but the "wild west" of unregulated republican Utopia of
Texas