Well I believe Enron started the electricity deregulation in Texas- just like when they deregulated the phones & you have different providers now? Well that’s happened with electricity in different states- not all- just a handful. So in a deregulated state there are people that produce the power and then people that sell it. The people that sell it can’t produce it and visa versa. Electricity is a commodity so these companies buy huge loads of promised electricity- a year or two in advance- and sell it- to us the consumers. So you buy a load at say 7 cents a kilowatt for a years contract but then you always gotta buy more & the price fluctuates and your contract might not be a fixed price. Anyways here in the northeast this happened as in Texas where they didn’t have an extra load capacity built in & therefore have to buy what the market is now- like $9000 a kilowatt. They can’t afford to buy more from suppliers so they just don’t supply you with any. Idk if I’m making any sense lol