Selecting a Houston Electric Company That Offers a Lower Price for Power
With the increase in the cost of power throughout Texas, many business consumers are seeking out
lower electricity rates.
Fortunately, business consumers can avoid municipal utility...
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Selecting a Houston Electric Company That Offers a Lower Price for Power
With the increase in the cost of power throughout Texas, many business consumers are seeking out
lower electricity rates.
Fortunately, business consumers can avoid municipal utility companies and
purchase power through an alternate Houston electric company.
While the local utility company still serves as the distributor of electrical power from the
transmission lines to the company’s electric meter, the state provides the opportunity for alternative
suppliers.
An alternate Houston electric company can now perform the generation and transmission
of electricity, and sell it to businesses at significantly lower prices.
Up until the deregulation of the electric industry, consumers did not have the ability to make a
choice when buying power.
For over 100 years, Texas regulators had fixed the price of electricity
provided to residential and business customers.
However, since 2002, through the deregulation of
the e
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