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by 8DonCo Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:17 pm
This Texan didn't lose power during the storm. But his electricity bill hit $16.8K US
Scott Willoughby of Royse City, Texas, was charged $16,847.35 US for his electricity bill this month after a snow storm knocked out power for millions of Texans and caused energy demand to skyrocket. (Submitted by Scott Willoughby)
Scott Willoughby thought he dodged a bullet when his electricity kept running during the brutal Texas cold snap. But then he got the bill.
The 63-year-old retired army veteran was charged $16,847.35 US for the privilege of keeping the lights on inside his Royse City, Texas, home while other Texans huddled in blanket forts and burned their furniture to stay warm.
The money was auto-deducted from his account, eating up his entire savings.
"It is devastating to me," Willoughby told As It Happens host Carol Off. "Fortunately, I had $17,000 in the bank that they could take out. What about [the] other … customers that had this same thing happen to them?"
Willoughby is one of many Texans stuck with sky-high electricity bills after a freak winter storm wreaked havoc on the state's electricity grid.
The surge in pricing is hitting people who have chosen to pay wholesale prices for their power, which is typically cheaper than paying fixed rates during good weather, but can spike when there's high demand for electricity.
Scott Willoughby is one of many Texans who saw their energy bills skyrocket after a cold snap
Scott Willoughby of Royse City, Texas, was charged $16,847.35 US for his electricity bill this month after a snow storm knocked out power for millions of Texans and caused energy demand to skyrocket. (Submitted by Scott Willoughby)
Scott Willoughby thought he dodged a bullet when his electricity kept running during the brutal Texas cold snap. But then he got the bill.
The 63-year-old retired army veteran was charged $16,847.35 US for the privilege of keeping the lights on inside his Royse City, Texas, home while other Texans huddled in blanket forts and burned their furniture to stay warm.
The money was auto-deducted from his account, eating up his entire savings.
"It is devastating to me," Willoughby told As It Happens host Carol Off. "Fortunately, I had $17,000 in the bank that they could take out. What about [the] other … customers that had this same thing happen to them?"
Willoughby is one of many Texans stuck with sky-high electricity bills after a freak winter storm wreaked havoc on the state's electricity grid.
The surge in pricing is hitting people who have chosen to pay wholesale prices for their power, which is typically cheaper than paying fixed rates during good weather, but can spike when there's high demand for electricity.
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Re: Hên hay xui ?
by 8DonCo Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:17 pm
người ta mất điện còn ông nầy thì không nhưng 17K saving bay mất tiêu
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nhatrangdep
Re: Hên hay xui ?
by ga10 Tue Feb 23, 2021 4:46 pm
Tui nghỉ Texas won't allow this type of price gouging during a state ẻmergency. Làm sao người ta biết trước giá sẽ gần $17K để mà consume less?
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Re: Hên hay xui ?
by 8DonCo Tue Feb 23, 2021 4:50 pm
ga10 wrote:Tui nghỉ Texas won't allow this type of price gouging during a state ẻmergency. Làm sao người ta biết trước giá sẽ gần $17K để mà consume less?
sau vụ nầy chắc nhiều người "lock" the price thay vì variable
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Re: Hên hay xui ?
by 8DonCo Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:17 am
A Texas woman sues an electric company after her bill was nearly $10,000
A Texas woman has filed a proposed billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against electric company Griddy Energy that alleges the company engaged in unlawful price gouging during last week's statewide winter storm and power outages, according to a statement from the law firm.
Lisa Khoury, a resident of a Houston suburb, claims she was charged a total of $9,546 by Griddy from February 1 to February 19, according to a copy of her bill filed with the lawsuit.
Khoury's average monthly electricity bill before February ranged from $200 to $250, according to the suit.
The suit claims that Griddy "committed price gouging," was negligent when it "failed to shield consumers from excessive electrical bills," and that, by selling electricity at high prices in the middle of the storm, the company was "unjustly enriched."
Griddy did not immediately respond to the allegations in the lawsuit when reached by CNN, though it did send statements broadly addressing the claims of price gouging. The company flatly denied that its business model of selling electricity at wholesale prices to consumers is price gouging.
Texans have options for how they are billed for their electricity, according to the Public Utility Commission of Texas' (PUCT) website. If a customer chooses a fixed plan, their price for electricity is locked in and doesn't fluctuate with the market, as opposed to market rate plans such as those made available in this instance by Griddy.
"We charge (customers) the wholesale, real-time price of energy, which changes every 5 minutes," Griddy wrote in its statement. "You effectively pay the same price as a retail energy provider or utility."
On its corporate website, Griddy touts that customers "pay exactly the price we buy electricity at" and that their model "beats the (Texas) average 96% of the time."
A Texas woman has filed a proposed billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against electric company Griddy Energy that alleges the company engaged in unlawful price gouging during last week's statewide winter storm and power outages, according to a statement from the law firm.
Lisa Khoury, a resident of a Houston suburb, claims she was charged a total of $9,546 by Griddy from February 1 to February 19, according to a copy of her bill filed with the lawsuit.
Khoury's average monthly electricity bill before February ranged from $200 to $250, according to the suit.
The suit claims that Griddy "committed price gouging," was negligent when it "failed to shield consumers from excessive electrical bills," and that, by selling electricity at high prices in the middle of the storm, the company was "unjustly enriched."
Griddy did not immediately respond to the allegations in the lawsuit when reached by CNN, though it did send statements broadly addressing the claims of price gouging. The company flatly denied that its business model of selling electricity at wholesale prices to consumers is price gouging.
Texans have options for how they are billed for their electricity, according to the Public Utility Commission of Texas' (PUCT) website. If a customer chooses a fixed plan, their price for electricity is locked in and doesn't fluctuate with the market, as opposed to market rate plans such as those made available in this instance by Griddy.
"We charge (customers) the wholesale, real-time price of energy, which changes every 5 minutes," Griddy wrote in its statement. "You effectively pay the same price as a retail energy provider or utility."
On its corporate website, Griddy touts that customers "pay exactly the price we buy electricity at" and that their model "beats the (Texas) average 96% of the time."
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Re: Hên hay xui ?
by 8DonCo Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:17 am
thưa cho vui chớ that 's your option to pay market rate
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Re: Hên hay xui ?
by ga10 Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:59 am
8DonCo wrote:thưa cho vui chớ that 's your option to pay market rate
The customers can said the company needs to inform them of the current market price every time it changes so they can decide whether you use their electricity or not.
ga10
Re: Hên hay xui ?
by 8DonCo Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:07 am
ga10 wrote:8DonCo wrote:thưa cho vui chớ that 's your option to pay market rate
The customers can said the company needs to inform them of the current market price every time it changes so they can decide whether you use their electricity or not.
not really, that 's your choice, market rate change all the time
"We charge (customers) the wholesale, real-time price of energy, which changes every 5 minutes,"
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LếchWè
Re: Hên hay xui ?
by 8DonCo Fri Feb 26, 2021 9:05 am
LếchWè wrote:tui nghĩ lần sau chắc chẻ nhà ra làm củi đốt
somebody already did, chặt hàng rào ra làm củi đốt
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Re: Hên hay xui ?
by LếchWè Fri Feb 26, 2021 9:40 am
uhm, chứ 8,5 k đủ nuôi mạng cùi tui ăn phở một năm
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