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State Electricity Shopping Website to Filter Irritating Minimum Use Fees
How’s this for irritating? You shut down your air conditioning and appliances to save money, but then get dinged with an extra fee for conserving power. Welcome to the annoying world of minimum-use fees. These particularly pernicious charges have become increasingly...
T&D Utilities: Rate Regulated, but Contributing to Higher Deregulated Prices
Transmission and distribution utilities — the “wires” companies like Houston’s CenterPoint Energy and Oncor, in Dallas — operate as regulated monopolies. They serve millions of customers statewide. But despite being rate regulated, transmission and distribution...
TCAP Members Receive Summertime Dividends
The Texas Coalition for Affordable Power, an electricity buying group comprised of Texas cities and political subdivisions, in June rebated back to its members $750,000. Nearly 90 percent of TCAP’s 169 political subdivisions will receive the checks. Individual...
Jay Doegey takes reins at TCAP
Former city attorney Jay Doegey, a Navy veteran with more than 35 years of experience in municipal government, has been named executive director of the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power. With his appointment, Mr. Doegey returns to an organization over which he...
UPDATE: Gov. Abbott signs HB 1101 favoring Electric Customers, Government Accountability
Nearly a quarter billion dollars in electricity rate discounts will continue flowing to more than 500,000 low-income Texans under crucial consumer legislation adopted in Austin. The legislation, House Bill 1101, also strikes a blow for governmental accountability....
Study: Automatic Bill Payment Programs Cost Money, Increase Consumption
Looking to cut your electric consumption? One way to do so — and save money to boot — is to avoid automatic bill payment programs. That’s the conclusion of Duke University economist Steven Sexton, who finds in a new peer reviewed study that enrollment in automatic...
Three Shocking Utility Expenses
Magazine: Texas Cities Guard Against Unfair Rate Hikes Here’s a fun fact: it’s your local government — cities — that serve as the first line of defense against unfair utility rate hikes. It’s cities that have original jurisdiction over local energy utilities, and...
TCAP Pilot Project Delivers Savings
Abilene, West Central Texas Municipal Water District, Other Political Subdivisions among First Beneficiaries ABILENE -- Approximately $35,000 — that’s the estimated savings realized by the City Of Abilene and the West Central Texas Municipal Water District thanks to...
TCAP Board President Jay Doegey Retires
Jay Doegey, the man who deftly led the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power from its inception and who for years has worked tirelessly on behalf of Texas energy consumers, has retired. “It’s hard to overstate the contributions Jay has made on behalf of energy...
New Video by RechargeTexas.com: Tips for Texas Electric Shoppers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgnU4cRxLHY Are your electric bills gobbling up your checking account? Maybe it’s time to switch power companies. And RechargeTexas.com is here to help. As a special Thanksgiving treat, the electric consumer website has released a new...
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