Texas freeze raises concerns about 'ridiculous' variable rate bills

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In Spring, Texas, about 20 miles (32 km) north of Houston, Akilah Scott-Amos is staring down a more than $11,000 electric bill for this month, a far cry from her $34 bill at this time last year.

FILE PHOTO: An electrical substation is seen after winter weather caused electricity blackouts in Houston, Texas, U.S. February 20, 2021. REUTERS/Go Nakamura/File Photo

More than a dozen states currently allow customers to sign up with variably-priced suppliers other than their power distribution companies. As climate change causes more unpredictable weather events, those who participate in such plans face the possibility of wild swings in their monthly costs in parts of the United States that rarely experience big temperature changes.

Until this week, in some states, electric suppliers were pushing “to just have it be a free-for-all, the way it is in Texas,” he said, referring to variable-rate style plans. “The last thing I’m going to do is stress myself with paying off this ridiculous bill. It should never have happened in the first place,” she said.

Griddy, which has 29,000 customers, according to local media reports, would account for 0.4% of the state’s total residential customers.However, some customers of utilities with fixed rate plans could get higher bills, too. “We are going to have a tsunami across the state associated with customer affordability,” Chief Executive Paula Gold-Williams said in a briefing on Monday, adding that CPS would not add those costs to bills while it sought state relief.

 

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Variable rates should be illegal if there’s not a cap in place.

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They deregulate responsibillity to citizens of the state, also pollution and once your kicked on the ground they beat you with a stick or throw rocks. Whose going go pay that? Even though it's the fault of those companies. These business like to play monarchy, soon they'll start

wow

Which we will not pay. GregAbbott_TX

Seriously this is why I get a year contract every year on electronic costs

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