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A lot of this is not true. I live in Texas, and electricity is not a disaster. You can choose from a variety of rates and providers (you can visit powertochoose
by unexpected 12y ago
A lot of this is not true. I live in Texas, and electricity is not a disaster. You can choose from a variety of rates and providers (you can visit powertochoose.org to see the site), but the local electric utility provider (the company that used to have the monopoly) is the guy you call when electricity goes out.
In the D/FW area, that's Oncor (and is for most of Texas).
- nostrademons 12y agoInteresting. I'm reporting on my sister's complaints, for providers in the Houston area. Edit: Hmm, interesting. Perhaps they just picked an unlucky initial provider and then got gobbled up successively.
- Avenger42 12y agoI'm in the Houston area and haven't had these issues. - You get small new companies popping up all the time and dying through mergers and acquisitions: to some extent this can be mitigated through your choice of provider. I haven't gone through one merger/acquisition, and I've used 3-5 different providers in ~10 years. - If there's a problem theres's nobody to call and nobody whose responsibility is fixing it: I don't remember how it was at my apartments, but since I've moved into my house, I call Centerpoint to fix all power problems, regardless of whose service I'm actually using.