TexasCHLforum.com

ERCOT = Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

www.powertochoose.org was the state of Texas' idea to allow comparison shopping for electric providers. Dave, the consumer watchdog from the Dallas Morning News, has been exposing them for quite a long time to be a deceptive website.

He has stopped referring to the PUC (Public Utilities Commission) as the PUC. He simply calls it the UC, since they don't care to actually operate in the public's best interest. An official of the PUC refers to the consumer watchdog as a grandstander since Dave is calling bull on the deceptive website's practices.

powertochoose.org is full of deceptive information, gotcha fees, and all kinds of nasty expenses hiding in the voluminous fine print of their agreements.
You have to be a contracts lawyer to plow through all the legalese. How about just a simple statement of KWH price, and 1 or 2 fees?

If the state actually chose to make the website more transparent, so that you could make easy apples to apples comparisons for prices and fees, that would beome a highly useful site for electricity consumers.

Prior to deregulation, Lewisville, Texas residents had no options. All electric service was provided by Texas New Mexico Power and their rates were very high. Then they changed their name to FCP (First Choice Power). I was still a long time user of FCP, since for a while their rates were OK, but then they raised my KWH rates to the moon. When I wised up and went with a cheaper TXU plan, all of a sudden FCP started calling me to switch back. No thanks you robbers!

SIA