The tariffs to pay for new nukes (and decommissioning the old ones) certainly don't help.
But I think much of the cost goes on pointless overhead. Namely the armies of lawyers and bean counters on the power company payrolls to oversee the market and look for loopholes to fuck over each other and the customers. I'll bet power companies employ far more of these oxygen theives than they have people who keep the lights on by running power stations, maintaining the grid and so on. I wonder if any of those life forms helped with the storm repairs, even if it was to just bring protective clothing or warm food to the people fixing the downed power cables?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
