Yeah but where is the rain? I know at Burning Man.Paladin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:17 pmIt's the hottest summer I remember as well.philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:03 pm https://www.click2houston.com/news/loca ... in-august/
ERCOT paid Texas Bitcoin miner to not mine and paid them $30 million to not mine during heat wave.
Got my bill this month for Aug. it was 13 cents last month it was 11 cents a KWh, not sure why it bumped. My share of the $30 mil?
It’s Sept suppose to be 103 today. Hottest Summer I can remember ever.
It’s not CO2 if it’s anything other than weather it’s the Sun.
Per the EPA, Water vapor has the bigger effect than CO2:
Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere(2022)Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
The huge amount of water vapor hurled into the atmosphere, as detected by NASA’s Microwave Limb Sounder, could end up temporarily warming Earth’s surface.
... the Tonga eruption sent around 146 teragrams (1 teragram equals a trillion grams) of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer.
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- Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:46 pm
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- Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:03 pm
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https://www.click2houston.com/news/loca ... in-august/
ERCOT paid Texas Bitcoin miner to not mine and paid them $30 million to not mine during heat wave.
Got my bill this month for Aug. it was 13 cents last month it was 11 cents a KWh, not sure why it bumped. My share of the $30 mil?
It’s Sept suppose to be 103 today. Hottest Summer I can remember ever.
It’s not CO2 if it’s anything other than weather it’s the Sun.
ERCOT paid Texas Bitcoin miner to not mine and paid them $30 million to not mine during heat wave.
Got my bill this month for Aug. it was 13 cents last month it was 11 cents a KWh, not sure why it bumped. My share of the $30 mil?
It’s Sept suppose to be 103 today. Hottest Summer I can remember ever.
It’s not CO2 if it’s anything other than weather it’s the Sun.
- Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:36 pm
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Griddy is saying $1.98 a KWh right now.
Channel 2 is saying ERCOT has ordered conservation.
What’s up did the wind stop again.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/loca ... n-outages/
Channel 2 is saying ERCOT has ordered conservation.
What’s up did the wind stop again.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/loca ... n-outages/
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:45 pm
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That would be $16,434 plus taxes, delivery fee, and ERCOT surcharges with Griddy. I'd estimate at around $25,000.powerboatr wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:57 pm not sure where to post this
but our electric bill arrived for the period 8 feb through 8 march
176.00
1826 kwh used
i was expecting a bit higher. our super insulation and energy plan is working
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:40 pm
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Apparently Fort Hood used Griddy.
“Yeah, we definitely had some sticker shock. I’ve had a lot of fun explaining to people about a $35.9 million electric bill for the month of February," a Fort Hood official said.
“Yeah, we definitely had some sticker shock. I’ve had a lot of fun explaining to people about a $35.9 million electric bill for the month of February," a Fort Hood official said.
- Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:55 pm
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https://www.dallasnews.com/business/ene ... 1-million/
If you cut off Griddy from your credit card or bank account, you won’t have to pay the power bill you owe.
If you paid the outrageous bills for fear of being cut off from electricity or wrecking your credit, they will try and get you “relief”.
If you cut off Griddy from your credit card or bank account, you won’t have to pay the power bill you owe.
If you paid the outrageous bills for fear of being cut off from electricity or wrecking your credit, they will try and get you “relief”.
- Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:05 pm
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That would be 9 which is better than me as I’m always over 1200 KWh. And yes that’s all in.03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:37 amIf that is the "all in" number"(meaning the bottom line divided by KWH used), that is not to bad. My bottom line number is 10.5 cents a KWH. It drops down by 1.5 cents a KWH if I use over 1200 KWH in one billing cycle.philip964 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:00 am https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/15/us/gridd ... index.html
Griddy files for Chapter 11.
Griddy decided a few days ago I owed them another $300. It has been two weeks since they were removed by ERCOT as my energy provider and was sent to Power provider of last resort.
They took the $50 I still had on account, but I decided to not pay the last $250. Hopefully I won’t owe it down the road. Getting anything back is looking very remote.
I’m now with someone else who charges 9.5 cents a KWh all in. That’s only a penny above Griddy for 2020 and it’s fixed.
My power provider of last resort charged me around $7 for the one day with them. That was for 55 KWh. That would have been $495 under the PUC’s emergency order.
- Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:00 am
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/15/us/gridd ... index.html
Griddy files for Chapter 11.
Griddy decided a few days ago I owed them another $300. It has been two weeks since they were removed by ERCOT as my energy provider and was sent to Power provider of last resort.
They took the $50 I still had on account, but I decided to not pay the last $250. Hopefully I won’t owe it down the road. Getting anything back is looking very remote.
I’m now with someone else who charges 9.5 cents a KWh all in. That’s only a penny above Griddy for 2020 and it’s fixed.
My power provider of last resort charged me around $7 for the one day with them. That was for 55 KWh. That would have been $495 under the PUC’s emergency order.
Griddy files for Chapter 11.
Griddy decided a few days ago I owed them another $300. It has been two weeks since they were removed by ERCOT as my energy provider and was sent to Power provider of last resort.
They took the $50 I still had on account, but I decided to not pay the last $250. Hopefully I won’t owe it down the road. Getting anything back is looking very remote.
I’m now with someone else who charges 9.5 cents a KWh all in. That’s only a penny above Griddy for 2020 and it’s fixed.
My power provider of last resort charged me around $7 for the one day with them. That was for 55 KWh. That would have been $495 under the PUC’s emergency order.
- Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:48 pm
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https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/04 ... 6-billion/
16 billion in over charges just in the last 33 hours after the crisis had passed.
https://news.yahoo.com/texas-regulators ... 44818.html
PUC will not return 16 billion to consumers or power providers or, wind mill operators who may all file for bankruptcy.
See attachment.
16 billion in over charges just in the last 33 hours after the crisis had passed.
https://news.yahoo.com/texas-regulators ... 44818.html
PUC will not return 16 billion to consumers or power providers or, wind mill operators who may all file for bankruptcy.
See attachment.
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 6:11 pm
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https://www.click2houston.com/consumer/ ... -business/
Which energy providers are in trouble. Energy Monger is on the list. Griddy is first gone. Others are saying ERCOT is in error.
Which energy providers are in trouble. Energy Monger is on the list. Griddy is first gone. Others are saying ERCOT is in error.
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:23 am
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https://abc13.com/ercot-griddy-energy-h ... /10374198/03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:30 amThe jerks want me to pay to see the article. I can see from your comment what has happened. Does this mean you are automatically shifted to another provider?philip964 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:19 pm https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/26/ ... -customers
Griddy shut off from grid by ERCOT.
Free article.
So Governor says no one can be cut off for non payment. Power providers don’t get money from customers. Power providers don’t send money to ERCOT. ERCOT now owes 2 billion to power makers. Griddy owes 2 million to ERCOT. ERCOT decides Griddy will be first and so far only Power provider cut from grid. I am now I think moved to a provider of last resort to be over charged again.
Now I have no way of getting whole again. Thank you Republican government of Texas.
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:19 pm
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- Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:45 pm
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https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-l ... ate-2021-2
Here is where the Republican Lt. Governor says I gambled and I lost. I have also read somewhere where they will make it illegal for consumers to buy wholesale. I stayed with Griddy. If they make Griddy illegal, I will not be able to make this loss back.
That is not how the free enterprise system works - Republicans.
Here is a copy of part of the Texas PUC order
“ERCOT has informed the Commission that energy prices across the system are clearing at less than $9,000, which is the current system-wide offer cap pursuant to 16 TAC §25.505(g)(6)(B). At various times today, energy prices across the system have been as low as approximately $1,200. The Commission believes this outcome is inconsistent with the fundamental design of the ERCOT market. Energy prices should reflect scarcity of the supply. If customer load is being shed, scarcity is at its maximum, and the market price for the energy needed to serve that load should also be at its highest. “
This is also not free enterprise this is illegally raising taxes.
Here is an energy trader that owns a mini generator and made so much money during the disaster that he feels so bad about it that he has donated $400,000 to a chef in Houston that has restaurants I can't afford to-go to's charity. He donated the extra $400,000 he made after the electric crisis passed on Thursday but the PUC did not remove the order till Friday morning as he must have felt extra guilty about that.
https://www.papercitymag.com/culture/ho ... adam-sinn/
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 8:17 pm
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Just understand, I gambled and agreed to a market rate and I am certainly willing pay that. However the PUC mandated a $9 rate for conservation purposes. I never agreed to pay an artificial mandated rate that the government set. As far as I am concerned I was given an illegal tax.03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:30 pmI live in Plano, just north of Dallas. My daughter is on a TXU plan and I am on Sparkenergy, out of Houston for my provider. Thank god we are both on fixed rate plans. We were both out for the majority of time on Monday and Tuesday. My son is in Pearland out near Houston and they were down two days. It makes sense that they would just kill the areas with highest number of users. Many areas out away from the suburbs had power the entire time.philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:04 pm I was told by someone who went to the ERCOT site that Houston and Dallas had the most percentage of customers with outages.
Where as San Antonio or Austin for example had a much lower percentage of customers who went without power. So it may be Centerpoint and who ever it is in Dallas, said "hey we will take the fall for this, shut us off"
Or maybe if your trying to reduce big useage in a hurry its easier to flip a big switch than lots of small switches.
Governor is holding up bills for customers. I think a lot of small cheap electricity providers went bankrupt part way through all this (because they couldn't pass on the $9 rates to their customers or could not borrow money until their customers paid them), when they went out of business, their customers were thrown to the wolves. Their customers may not know at this point. In addition did any one read the fine print of the contracts they signed. It may be during an emergency you may not get the 12 or 15 cent electricity prices that were quoted. They may get to bump you to $9 like the Griddy customers did.
On Friday after the PUC order was removed electricity prices at about 10 am went from the artificial $9 a kwh to 2 cents a KWh because that was market at the time. Saturday I used 39.8 KWh and paid a total of 17 cents for power. Sunday I used 38.4 KWh and got paid 19 cents for using it.
The about 5 days last week cost me more than double my total yearly bill in 2020.
If I get any back, its going into a generator.
I could never pay a 17K bill, even with a "payment plan", LOL... so your payment would be 500 a month for three years? They have to help these people. Yeah, they gambled some with variable rates but nobody expected it to be that kind of gamble. Maybe a nickle a KWh or something...but my gosh! Even a two thousand dollar bill would be crazy in a house.
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:04 pm
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I was told by someone who went to the ERCOT site that Houston and Dallas had the most percentage of customers with outages.
Where as San Antonio or Austin for example had a much lower percentage of customers who went without power. So it may be Centerpoint and who ever it is in Dallas, said "hey we will take the fall for this, shut us off"
Or maybe if your trying to reduce big useage in a hurry its easier to flip a big switch than lots of small switches.
Governor is holding up bills for customers. I think a lot of small cheap electricity providers went bankrupt part way through all this (because they couldn't pass on the $9 rates to their customers or could not borrow money until their customers paid them), when they went out of business, their customers were thrown to the wolves. Their customers may not know at this point. In addition did any one read the fine print of the contracts they signed. It may be during an emergency you may not get the 12 or 15 cent electricity prices that were quoted. They may get to bump you to $9 like the Griddy customers did.
On Friday after the PUC order was removed electricity prices at about 10 am went from the artificial $9 a kwh to 2 cents a KWh because that was market at the time. Saturday I used 39.8 KWh and paid a total of 17 cents for power. Sunday I used 38.4 KWh and got paid 19 cents for using it.
The about 5 days last week cost me more than double my total yearly bill in 2020.
If I get any back, its going into a generator.
Where as San Antonio or Austin for example had a much lower percentage of customers who went without power. So it may be Centerpoint and who ever it is in Dallas, said "hey we will take the fall for this, shut us off"
Or maybe if your trying to reduce big useage in a hurry its easier to flip a big switch than lots of small switches.
Governor is holding up bills for customers. I think a lot of small cheap electricity providers went bankrupt part way through all this (because they couldn't pass on the $9 rates to their customers or could not borrow money until their customers paid them), when they went out of business, their customers were thrown to the wolves. Their customers may not know at this point. In addition did any one read the fine print of the contracts they signed. It may be during an emergency you may not get the 12 or 15 cent electricity prices that were quoted. They may get to bump you to $9 like the Griddy customers did.
On Friday after the PUC order was removed electricity prices at about 10 am went from the artificial $9 a kwh to 2 cents a KWh because that was market at the time. Saturday I used 39.8 KWh and paid a total of 17 cents for power. Sunday I used 38.4 KWh and got paid 19 cents for using it.
The about 5 days last week cost me more than double my total yearly bill in 2020.
If I get any back, its going into a generator.