Or maybe power grids are teetering because utilities raked in profit for the last two decades by ignoring upgrades that would obviously be necessary… Just a thought :)
My utility sells $400 Wi-Fi touchscreen thermostats for like $25, the catch being you let them turn your AC down/off when grid load peaks. A few truckloads of thermostats are cheaper than grid upgrades, so they do the thermostats and kick the can down the road more.
“Extreme is increasing electricity demand as people crank up the AC.”
I suppose that’s a sentence?
It’s close enough. They tried their best.
It’s the New York Times! They couldn’t even take the time to proofread the very first sentence :) Journalism has such a low bar these days.
Pretty sure it was supposed to say extreme yeet
World is getting hotter so turn on ac which uses more electricity, build new non-renewable electricity production to keep up which then increases world temps more. We’re in a shitty vicious cycle.
Shitty, but profitable!
/s if not obvious.
