Critical Peak Rebate Programs. What Are They?
Critical Peak Rebate programs are likely to become a new hot trend in the world of Texas electricity. So what are critical peak rebate programs, and what do they mean to you? Let’s take a look.
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PUC Rules Electric Companies Can’t Alter Fixed Price Rates
After the PUC voted to raise the market cape earlier this summer (with more cap raises coming in upcoming years), there were a lot of concerns about whether or not Texas electricity companies would alter the rates of their fixed-rate electricity plans because of increased costs on their end. This was a controversial concept since Read More
Texas Electricity Provider Map
Last week’s purchase of First Choice Power by Direct Energy was yet another major acquisition of a Retail Electricity Provider by a major energy conglomerate. There’s been around half a dozen of these deals in the past year, and in my opinion, things have gotten a bit muddled and confusing. So I wanted to write Read More
Texas Electricity Crisis: Explaining the Market Dangers
Everyone has seen the ERCOT notices to conserve electricity recently. They seem like there have been daily alerts and calls to action for people to regulate their electricity intake for the sake of conservation. I’m sure a lot of people dismiss this stuff out of hand, but the concern is valid. And I’m going to Read More
Texas Electricity: Minimum Usage Charges
Earlier this week, I got an email from a Texas Electricity Ratings reader, suggesting I write an article about Minimum Usage charges. We’ve discussed Minimum Usage charges in the past here, but to clear things up, in short, they’re additional charges that are tacked onto a person’s bill if they use less than a certain Read More
Market Rates: South Texas Electricity 4/27
Good afternoon, everyone. The entry of the day for the Texas Electricity shopping guide is South Texas (AEP Central) which covers the prices for Corpus Christi electricity and Brownsville electricity. This area of Texas is expensive compared to Houston and Dallas, starting off almost 2 cents per kWh higher than Oncor and Centerpoint. So it’s Read More
Market Rates: Fixed Rate Plans 6/29
Here’s a look at the Fixed Rate plans for this week in Texas electricity.After some strange slap fighting this morning between my server hosts and my ISP, the site is back up and running. This helps me post the electric rates and customers to compare and shop for new plans. As always, we’ll take a Read More
Market Prices: Fixed Rate Plans 6/15
On today’s agenda is to list the different fixed rate plans that are available this week in the deregulated Texas electricity market. So far the month to month rates have held steady despite the summer heat, so it will be good to examine the fixed rate plans and see if they are staying stable as Read More
Market Prices: Fixed Rate Plans 6/8
Greetings, everyone. Since it is Tuesday, today we’ll be evaluating the prices for the Fixed Rate plans in the Texas electricity market. As always, the purpose of these posts are to help shoppers save money on the different electric rates available in the marketplace. Fixed rates particularly are a great way to try and keep Read More
Market Prices: Fixed Rates 6/1
Here’s today’s second post looking at the Texas Electricity market rates for the first week of June. This post is going to take a look at Fixed Rate plans and is organized by TDSP so that customers in any area of Texas should be able to find a few of the providers who are providing Read More