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ERCOT, the entity charged with running the Texas grid and ensuring it’s reliability, announced Monday that it was lowering its estimated reserve margin for the summer of 2018. While that’s not good news for Texas electric rates , it’s not the end of the world, either. ERCOT’s preferred reserve margin is 13.75% extra generating capacity […]
At Texas Electricity Ratings, we take pride in our consumer advocacy for customers in the deregulated electricity market. Recently, we revamped our ratings to include new criteria, and to take advantage of our decades of experience in the Texas Electricity market to help give useful rankings of the electricity providers in Texas. And we were […]
Deregulation of electrical companies has given people across the Lone Star State the power to choose their own Texas electrical rates. However, many consumers don’t realize they have the freedom to pick from the best local rates available. In Houston alone, there are almost 100 different electrical plans in existence from a wide variety of […]
Frontier Utilities has made a specialty out of six month plans. In an earlier article, we looked at plans that didn’t have Frontier’s high cancellation rates. If you’re looking for Houston electricity rates, and you’re not sure if you’ll be around for a full year, a 6 month plan might be the way to go. […]
Texas Electricity Ratings, the top website for consumer advocacy and shopping in the Texas electricity marketplace, has released their updated rankings for the electricity companies in Texas. Ahead of August 1st, typically the hottest month of the year in Texas, the team at Texas Electricity Ratings wanted to make sure that shoppers were armed with […]
It sounds like a great cosmic conjunction. The kind of thing that has practically never happened in living memory. Oh yeah —there’s that eclipse-thing, too. Seriously, who could have imagined a potential solar panel trade war happening during an presidency firmly committed to protecting and promoting fossil fuels. But the fact is that American solar […]
The Texas Coalition for Affordable Power (TCAP) released it 2017 snapshot of Texas Electricity prices last week. For folks comparing Texas rates and looking for the cheapest electricity plans, the report has some interesting and somewhat nuanced insights. TCAP’s ELECTRICITY PRICES IN TEXAS main take-aways are: Average residential electricity prices in the competitive retail areas of […]
There are so many choices for electricity plans in Houston, it can be difficult to choose. With the power to choose comes a need for information. To help out, TexasElectricityRates.com has calculated the best Houston Electricity Rates in 12-month plans. We’ll compare these plans side-by-side to decide which is the best plan for the most […]
Texas Electricity Ratings gives consumers the power to choose the cheapest Texas electricity rates. And if you’re committed to using renewable or alternative electricity sources, knowing what’s currently available and what’s going to be available will make all the difference when you shop for a plan. Because we want consumers to be smart shoppers, we’ve assembled our […]
Ouch! Back on April 13, the Texas Public Utility Commission rejected NextEra Energy Inc.’s proposed $18.4 billion acquisition of Oncor. Though not unexpected, the PUC unanimously voted down the deal saying it was not in the best interest of consumers who want the best electricity rates. The chief concern being NextEra dispensing with ring fencing […]