whats a good price for electricity per KWH??

[dbarham]

Thanks Bryan I am now in your family!

[Muddskipper]

You should call back and demand to be on 10.2 or you'll switch companies.

It wont work, most of the time your talking to someone who is contracted and not even in the state .... they are a hired call center .... it's not that they don't care just the price is set, and ther is no way they can change it ....

Just the world we live in ....

Oh well

[pho cowboy]

9.9 for Spark for 12 months

[Oleander Kayaker]

I called Reliant, tonight, to see what they could do and they gave the unloaded rate. I asked for the loaded rate and it went up nearly 2 cents.

Fortunately, my plan is up for renewal so there is no penalty to switch now. I'm part of Bryan's family now. What's for dinner for the next 24 month's bro? Yo, is that beer in the fridge?

Beware about unloaded and loaded rates. Many electric companies have a base load charge of, say, around 10 cents. Then they add a few state taxes and a "fuel surcharge." These tweaks and adjustments can get you well over 12 cents, easy.

Take your whole monthly payment and divide if by the reported kWh. That's your real billing rate in cents per kWh.

Now some can save you money, such as your wind turbine companies. The idea is like a contract with a "lock-in" price per kWh. If you got in a long time ago, you might have been able to get 8 cents ... newbies are like 10 or 11.

Why? Because the traditional fuel surcharge is based on the price of natural gas, which is added to your bill even if coal or wind power is used - I'm talking about TXU, CPL/American, and the big majors in Texas. If the price of natural gas goes up, so will your electric bill. Lately natural gas has fallen quite low because of an over-supply ... but I see prices trending upwards, perhaps in light of the Deepwater Horizon and tightening supplies, although it is anybody's guess right now.

sammie

[Muddskipper]

9.9 for Spark for 12 months

All in and 100% wind ??? .... I don't think so .....


Where they get you is, a customer service charge of $5 and sometimes some other charges snuck in somewhere .... its like they are selling cars ... and have little ninja add ons that you don't catch.....

It's cool though ... I used to be with Spark ..... but Direct Energy also supports Sea Center Lake Jackson, flounder restocking program .....

[Swells]

There is a benefit from using the local carrier. In my area it is CPL/AEP. The minute a transformer blows like a hand grenade, a tree falls on a line, or some drunk hits a telephone pole, I'm on the phone and these boys are good and fast. Oh and I call the cops, too, 9-1-1.

Try that with Green Mountain Energy or one of the independents and frankly, you'll get a bit of a run-around.

For example, one of my buds was putting in a new electrical panel box, and simply needed the power off for an hour to hook up and get inspected. BUT, he had subscribed to TXU up in Dallas, not the local CPL provider. You guessed it, they sent a utility truck all the way from Dallas and came back a day or two later, and charged a bunch for the disconnect and hook-up ... the process ended up taking a week and a couple hundred bucks!

Camping out inside your own home isn't happy camping, especially with a wife and kids, know what I mean?

[Oleander Kayaker]

The companies that own and maintain the distribution network, transformers and the like are Centerpoint (800-332-7143) on the island and Texas-New Mexico Power (888-866-7456) on the mainland (along the I-45 corridor between the causeway and League City, roughly). They are the ones to call, versus the service provider (Reliant, AEP, Direct Energy,... ad nauseam), when there is an outage.

There is a benefit from using the local carrier. In my area it is CPL/AEP. The minute a transformer blows like a hand grenade, a tree falls on a line, or some drunk hits a telephone pole, I'm on the phone and these boys are good and fast. Oh and I call the cops, too, 9-1-1.

Try that with Green Mountain Energy or one of the independents and frankly, you'll get a bit of a run-around.

For example, one of my buds was putting in a new electrical panel box, and simply needed the power off for an hour to hook up and get inspected. BUT, he had subscribed to TXU up in Dallas, not the local CPL provider. You guessed it, they sent a utility truck all the way from Dallas and came back a day or two later, and charged a bunch for the disconnect and hook-up ... the process ended up taking a week and a couple hundred bucks!

Camping out inside your own home isn't happy camping, especially with a wife and kids, know what I mean?

[shallowist]

I quit Gexa, but there is a friends and family code that i gave out to customers. I think that the face value says 10 or 10.2 right now, but my bill actually comes to me at 9. something. Really helped cut my home bills with way too many kids that don't turn off lights and a pool that has to have the pumps running 12 hours a day!

PM me for the code. otherwise, the company that Brian works for is fantastic!

[shallowist]

just noticed the post above, you only call the Transmission and Distribution Service Provider (TDSP) If you look at your bill,depending on your service area, you will find the provider listed on your bill with an 800 number. The retail providers don't do anything other than send orders for service and send you the bill, basically....