A million here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking about real money

Fort Hood kept lights on during winter storm, and now has a massive electric bill

“Our renewable energy actually did pretty well. Our solar produced very similar to what it produced last February,” Dosa said. “Our wind was down about 25 percent for the month. There was some affect from those really cold temperatures out in the panhandle where our 22 wind turbines area (sic). But still we had good wind production during the month of February. It was just those really high conventional costs that was the driving force behind the high electric bill.”

 How big a bill? Somewhere around $30-36 million, give or take (Army accounting gets a little wobbly). For one month. February. The month of that little cold snap in Texas.

Other military bases around the state (there are a bunch of them) reported similar costs: $lots and lots.

Think of it as another stimulus bill, this one for the Texas power industry.