Chaos again? Bill Gates was right this time when the Texas electric power giant filed for bankruptcy.

Sometimes, some companies will go bankrupt because of poor management or various reasons, but this time it is really an American power giant, which is a bit surprising.

According to the news, Blazouez, the earliest and largest electric power cooperative company in Texas, applied to the Houston court for bankruptcy protection.

This company is one of dozens of power suppliers in Texas, which can provide power services to more than 660,000 residents, and as the first country to complete the market-oriented operation system of power grid, the power system in the United States has been very stable.

Moreover, due to the "free competition of electricity" market in Texas, the electricity bill has been quite cheap.

However, due to an unusual snowstorm in mid-February, nearly half of the power plants in Texas were shut down, more than 4.3 million people were without heating and power supply for several days, water pipes burst, and many houses and enterprises were affected.

It can be said that this extremely cold snowstorm not only made the largest power company in Texas file for bankruptcy, but also messed up a lot of power equipment and even pulled off the "fig leaf" of the American power system.

Many families not only face insufficient heating and electricity in extremely cold weather, but also receive "sky-high" electricity bills afterwards. Some people's electricity bills have actually increased by 1.80 times, and some Texas families' electricity bills have directly increased by nearly 1 ten thousand dollars.

Moreover, before filing for bankruptcy, the accumulated debt of Brothers Electric Power Company was $654.38+0.8 billion, which was the main factor leading to its bankruptcy.

In addition to the impact of power outages on daily life, people have vomited, and many enterprises and factories in Texas have no small impact.

Many large companies' factories in Texas, such as Samsung's chip fab, and semiconductor factories of chip giants NXP and Infineon, were forced to close.

As a large-scale factory producing chips, some experts said that the shutdown may lead to problems in the global chip supply. Now chips all over the world are facing a shortage. Even Lu Du of Xiaomi said that there will be a special shortage of chips this year.

Under normal circumstances, there will be no problems in the power system itself, but in this extreme weather, the Texas Electric Power Reliability Committee only said: insufficient preparation and poor response.

But obviously this can't convince everyone, because unlike us, many power companies, including Blazouez, are private enterprises, and often if their interests are damaged, they will make up for it through consumers.

This is why some residents receive "sky-high" bills twice as much as the original ones.

In this matter, as a well-known public figure, Bill Gates is right again: the power system is a public facility, and some problems arising from it should not be paid by the public!

Some people may wonder why the electricity tariff in Texas is so bizarre, so it is necessary to talk about the unique power supply mode in Texas.

As Bill Gates said, this cannot be a reason for power companies to make people pay the bill.

However, this is not a problem of power supply, but a problem of power system structure. There are more than 200 power supply companies in the United States, so the competition and coordination among so many power companies is a problem. Although it can compete freely, it will also be linked to the needs of users. It's very affordable when the price is cheap. However, when the supply exceeds the demand, the price will rise.

By contrast, we are much better. The lines of the State Grid extend in all directions. Even if there are only a few families in the deep mountains and forests, the staff can still let the light shine in the deep mountains and forests!