Electricity Providers

[03Lightningrocks]

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.

If 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]

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.

If 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.

That would be 9 which is better than me as I’m always over 1200 KWh. And yes that’s all in.

[03Lightningrocks]

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.

If 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.

That would be 9 which is better than me as I’m always over 1200 KWh. And yes that’s all in.

It is called Spark Energy. I'm in Dallas area but they are head quartered in your area. My son in Pearland uses them and get's an even lower rate. I guess they offer different packages depending on where one lives.

[carlson1]

Energy Ogre works for me.

[03Lightningrocks]

Energy Ogre works for me.

What do you pay(bottom line) per KWH?

[philip964]

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”.

[powerboatr]

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

[philip964]

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.

[ELB]

My billing periods run from middle of month to middle of month. So the Snovid period was split between bill ending in Feb and bill ending in Mar. My Jan bill was $113, Feb $115, and Mar $117. Each of those is about $10 more than same periods in 2020, but about the same as 2019 and much less than 2018 (I have no idea what was going on in 2018).

[philip964]

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

That would be $16,434 plus taxes, delivery fee, and ERCOT surcharges with Griddy. I'd estimate at around $25,000.

[philip964]

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/

[03Lightningrocks]

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/

The article at the link states that they are claiming the problem is due to a stalled cold front over North Texas. If those clowns can't provide enough power when it is 60-70 degrees, what the heck is going to happen when temps rise into the 90's???

[philip964]

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.

[Paladin]

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.

It's the hottest summer I remember as well.

Per the EPA, Water vapor has the bigger effect than CO2:

Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere(2022)

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.

[philip964]

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.

It's the hottest summer I remember as well.

Per the EPA, Water vapor has the bigger effect than CO2:

Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere(2022)

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.

Yeah but where is the rain? I know at Burning Man.