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Is It Better To Shop Short or Long Term Electricity Now? If you’ve bought or sold a home in the summer, you know the dilemma. Do you sign up for a long term electricity plan to get the shopping process behind you? Or do you get a short term plan to get you through summer’s Read More
Which Texas Grid Laws Passed Through The Legislature? The Texas Legislature passed two critical Texas grid laws last month. These will head to Governor Greg Abbott to sign into law. Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 3 enact sweeping change to the reliability of electricity service for Texans. Other electric reliability bills failed to pass Read More
In Texas, June 1 is the beginning of hurricane season. With Texas so often pounded by these storms, residents want to know what to expect this summer. According to several weather bureaus, Summer 2021 looks like it will be an “above-normal” hurricane season. Chief among them, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted “an Read More
Find Cheap Electricity Providers Before Prices Rise Moving is never easy. But trying to find great electricity plans for Dallas movers doesn’t have to be a nightmare. With the right strategy, you can hit the ground running in Texas AND save BIG on your monthly energy bills. Here’s how you can do it. How to Read More
Will Texas Ban Electricity Plans Like Griddy? Few things have bipartisan support like never letting the power outages from Winter Storm Uri ever happen again. As Texas’s political leaders decide how to best do this, one piece of legislation is flying through the Capitol. House Bill 16 proposes banning wholesale pass-through electric products like those Read More
What Planned Rate Reforms for the Texas Grid Are Coming? The thaw after Winter Storm Uri has come, and nearly all Texans have reliable power and water once again. But as Texans huddled in unheated homes and boiled snow for potable water, they wondered who to blame. They also wanted measures in place to prevent Read More
Electricity Customers Will Survive the Texas Power Grid Failure One impish pal privately quipped to me that news about the Texas freeze reminded him of Sunday morning church after a Saturday night chili festival — lots of strained grimaces, startling noises, and mortified amazement. Still, crude humor aside, Texas energy customers are rightly outraged at events Read More
How Did Cold Weather Freeze The Texas Grid? With Arctic-like cold and wind chills likely sticking around Texas until the weekend, many electricity customers inn ERCOT are finding time to wonder what happened on Sunday, February 15. After all, the past week’s cold weather catastrophe seems more at home in the bleak whiteness of Read More
Will More Green Energy Lower Your Bill? Green energy is booming in Texas. New solar farms, wind farms, and industrial battery projects are starting, continuing, and completing. As a result, many customers wonder if this all this new renewable energy will translate to higher or lower bills. Ultimately, more generation capacity is good for Texas Read More
How Do I Keep My Home Warm During Power Outage Texans woke to teeth-chattering Arctic cold this morning scarcely seen in decades. With temperatures struggling to climb from single digits in the wee-small hours, ERCOT warned Texas electric customers to conserve electricity. Otherwise, “Rotating outages may be needed to protect the system.” The combination of Read More
