July 27 - U.S. power prices rose to their highest in months in a couple of markets as homes and businesses cranked up their air conditioners to escape aExtreme weather reminds consumers of the fatal freeze in February 2021 that left millions of Texans without power, water and heat for days and a brutal heatwave in August 2020 that forced the California grid operator to impose rotating outages for a couple of day that affected around 800,000 customers.
AccuWeather meteorologists forecast temperatures would reach the 90s Fahrenheit in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston over the next few days and over 110 F in Phoenix. The California Independent System Operator issued an energy emergency alert for Wednesday night, the third in a week, "due to some resources going offline, continued excessive heat in interior Southern California, and transmission congestion restricting movement of power to parts of the state where it’s needed."