For example, one way, among the many, that they made money was to purchase transmission rights on essential power lines, most significantly a thousand of the 1,600 possible megawatts on California’s path 26, one of two conductors linking the northern and southern halves of the state. They could then fictitiously “clog” this route. They did this not by adding any actual electricity into the grid, but by simply saying there was no more room available on these critical paths and then getting the state to pay them to “free up” transmission capacity that had in fact been there all along.
