That massive spike of 50c/kWh at the left looks tiny compared to today even though that’s already insanely expensive
That’s fairly typical. WTF would you do in an outage?
Shiver uncontrollably.
Woesome.
Back up generators if the expected outage is to last more than one day - and sometimes it can.
I hear this a lot since we converted to heat pumps. People don’t realize basically every heat source these days other than wood needs electricity. We kept our oil system as a backup for very cold days but it also doesn’t work with no power.
There are cheap ways to run a backup heat source. I installed a generator, which makes sense for my very rural location. But before the whole house automatic genset, I used a $100US switch that would allow me to run my LP furnace on a small portable generator. All the furnace requires is 110/120VAC to operate. Something cheaply and easily supplied by a small gasoline powered portable for less than $500US.