Thousands Of Texas Customers Dumped By Electricity Providers
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Thousands Of Texas Customers Dumped By Electricity Providers
Retail electricity providers who defaulted on payments to the state’s power grid have dumped thousands of Texas residents.
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(June 5, 2008)--More than 30,000 Texas electricity customers have been forced into a state backup program in recent weeks after their retail providers defaulted on payments to the operator
of the state's largest power grid.

The latest provider was Denton-based Etricity.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says it switched about 12,220 Etricity residential customers into the provider-of-last-resort program.

Two other companies, Pre-Buy Electric LLC and National Power Company, also stopped serving about 24,000 customers in the last couple of weeks.

ERCOT operates the grid for most of the state.

While those customers may have to pay higher prices until they sign with a new provider, at least their power won’t be turned off as Texas heats up for the summer.

Click Here For ERCOT Web Site

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Posted by: cheri Location: etricity on Jun 10, 2008 at 05:20 PM

I just happen to call to pay bill and I got no anwser for the last couple of days. Then i went to the website to look up another number and then this what shows up. This is very sad and how it inconviences the customer.
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Posted by: Not telling Location: Denton on Jun 6, 2008 at 09:30 AM

I worked for eTricity and the way they did their csts and their employees was WRONG...we had no idea eTricity was in trouble, they came to the office on Tuesday and shut us down. I do apologize to all the csts DO NOT GO TO A pre-paid company they will screw you...
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Posted by: LN Location: Robinson on Jun 6, 2008 at 08:56 AM

A company fails to have good business practices and goes under, and now ya'll think de-regulation is awful. Holy cow, now they have to make a phone call and pick a new provider which takes not much more than a few minutes. No service interuption, plus a chance to maybe SAVE some money by doing a little research and going with a lower cost provider. Or pay a little more and go with a "green" provider. Choice, yeah, it sure is awful.
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