CO-OP's are a good thing. Be sure to attend meetings. PSC's are beneficial also. Without price fixing bills go up when it's colder a little more than when it's hot.
Texas Cold Weather Discussion
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butchlambert
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I usually get a $350 check yearly from them.
This guy signed up for electric power billing through some company I've never heard of before - gridder. This dude made the national NBC Nightly News broadcast this evening (minutes ago). NBC reporter said they're contacted gridder for comment without yet receiving a reply ...
Texas officials block electricity providers from sending bills, disconnecting utilities for nonpayment
(TEXAS TRIBUNE) – Gov. Greg Abbott said he and other state leaders are working fast to find solutions for home owners and renters facing steep electricity bills after a winter storm left many…
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Dusty Stevens
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I bet its some kind of stupid plan that buys wholesale power in a pool like vivint used to do. Its illegal in most states for a reason
That's certainly the impression I got, the news report said this dude was "unaware the price pf his electric power was subject to change", and the dude said he'd reached into his retirement savings to pay this bill.
In California we pay .24 for the first 400 KW and then have the privilege of paying .29 for the next 1600KW and then .33 for everything after that.
Dusty Stevens
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Thats their way of forcing you to be green, but if you dont want to be green thats ok theyll just make money off of you
Correction - the company name is griddy, I found their website.
www.griddy.com
Power your home with wholesale electricity
Griddy passes through the wholesale price of electricity for $9.99 a month. Fair and transparent.
www.griddy.com
Murray Brook
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Well our gas here is much more than what you pay in Texas ($5.90 imp gallon) but our electricity is much cheaper at $0.06 KWH. Entire bill for last year was about $980/year. Feels good to hear something is cheaper here.
Dusty Stevens
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Texas is deregulated and it lets the predatory wholesalers sell there. Dumbest thing ever to not get your electricity from the provider, instead going thru a middleman to buy it from your utility then sell it to you. Makes the utilities look bad when something like this happens and gets your juice turned on last during a storm. Griddy will make him pay that bill since theres no public service commission to regulate prices. They will set him up on a payment plan and it may take 34years but he will pay it.Correction - the company name is griddy, I found their website.
Power your home with wholesale electricity
Griddy passes through the wholesale price of electricity for $9.99 a month. Fair and transparent.
I live in Kentucky and went to St. Louis this weekend to visit my daughter. I paid $2.29 per gallon when I filled up upon leaving. Gas was $2.59 in Indiana along the interstate. After crossing into the Socialist Republic of Illinois, it shot up to $3.25 per gallon. WoW... When I crossed into Missouri it dropped back to $2.59.....What does that tell you? I texted a friend and told him of it. His response was "Holly Shart, that's what these forkin Biden voters wanted . Now we're all ducked...."
IMHO, folks need to have redundant backup of some sort, be it a wood stove, propane heater, generator, whatever. Back in the '50s gas heaters functioned by convection and didn't need electricity to work Phones were powered by DC from the exchange. Today, everything is dependent on the electric grid. .
I think he already paid it because in his television interview he said when he signed up for this low cost electrical power he had to sign up for automatic payment from his bank account and he showed where it had already been withdrawn by his electrical provider.
snert
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it is all because we failed to invest enough in green energy. Come on man! Don't you know this is all because the orange man lied??
That's congruent with what I saw on this evening's national news, and the dude saying he'd dipped into his retirement savings to pay that bill.
jimmymac
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I'm not in to excuses. Been an industrial piping designer for a long time and I see first hand how these things go. If freeze protection is required, then it is also required to be working. If it isn't working then we are back to the original question. Why not? At best, it's shoddy maintenance. At worst it is blatant disregard for the obvious to save a buck. I'm sure freeze protection can be a big pain in the butt to maintain, but it is what it is. Cost of doing business.
Down here and along the Gulf Coast, major electric power outages are primarily due to severe tropical weather systems like hurricanes. In August 1970 I and my family were without electric power as well as our neighbors for three weeks following Hurricane Celia. Municipal natural gas supply was quickly restored as compressors in the natural gas network are typically (and naturally) powered by natural gas internal combustion engines instead of electric motors. So our house had gas for cooking and gas fired water heater so hot water available but no lights, TV, A/C etc. Those with gas instead of electric ranges & ovens helped neighbors cook meals alongside their own familiy's meals (including my mother) even if it was just heating up canned food.
We had gas home heating as well, exactly like you said, that didn't depend on nor use electricity. Our house and neighborhood wasn't built with central HVAC, it was wall unit gas heaters and (mostly DIY) window unit A/C systems. The gas fired water heater also didn't use electricity, it had simple controls. We didn't have any secondary source of home heating at that house and no fireplace which was the standard in the area we lived in as ours house was modest and fairly humble by today's standards. The heat sink of Corpus Christi Bay moderated the area winter low and summer high temperatures to a degree vs inland areas, bit the flip side was humidity, which got to swamp proportions in the aftermath of that hurricane with all the standing water. Intact or repaired window screens to keep what seemed like a plague of mosquitoes at bay were the big health and comfort priority.
That's just the way things are this far south and this close to sea level. This winter storm was kinda the equivalent here to having a major hurricane in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.
I can't remember a single instance in the 47 years I've spent in Texas and / or Louisiana anybody including me and my family getting exorbitant electric power bills in the aftermath of any such devastating tropical weather systems.
We've never used any but localbsupplier / infrasyructute owner for our electric service provider even when deregulation occurred. Same for natural gas as well for years we lived in the Great Lakes area. San Antonio electic power is from a municipal owned provider, City Public Service which has its own pluses and minuses. The mayor here has automatically mandated suspension of the autopay system and suspension of all disconnects for bill non-payment for now while the municipal muckety-mucks here dither about what will happen with billing here.
CPS Energy files to suspend release of public information from winter weather
SAN ANTONIO - CPS Energy has filed to suspend the release of information to the public for the past week. The application, which you can read below, was sent to the Texas Attorney General office Feb. 16, two days after snow piled on San Antonio. The request, called a Public Information Act...
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CPS Energy trustees to meet Monday for first time since winter storms
CPS Energy CEO Paula Gold-Williams is scheduled to give a report on the “New Unprecedented Texas/San Antonio Energy Market Event” at the CPS Energy Board of Trustees 1pm Monday meeting. Though it is not specified in the agenda, it’s likely this will include a discussion of plans for customers to...
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My understanding is he said that was withdrawn from his account by the electric company as he has that plan where some bills are paid electronically. So if true he won't be forced to pay it.....they already have it.
And 1/4 of it? $4,000+ electric bill is ok?
No clue as to the laws in Texas for cutting off power for none payment.
Dusty Stevens
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He already paid it. @Brians356 owes me a weeks pay. They charged his credit card each day. He was on newsmax this morning and said he signed a contract with the gridder or whatever. They told him to swap providers or it would happen.
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