{"id":183529,"date":"2021-02-20T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T22:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/homeowners-hit-with-massive-electric-bills-amid-texas-winter-storm\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T01:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T22:52:08","slug":"homeowners-hit-with-massive-electric-bills-amid-texas-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/homeowners-hit-with-massive-electric-bills-amid-texas-winter-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"#Homeowners hit with massive electric bills amid Texas winter storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Homeowners hit with massive electric bills amid Texas winter storm<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Texans say energy companies are on a power trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Electric bills in the Lone Star State skyrocketed to as high as $17,000 per month after a historic storm and power outage sparked a high demand for heat,\u00a0according to reports Friday.<\/p>\n

Dallas-area resident Ty Williams was hit with sticker shock when his monthly bill soared from $600 last month to nearly $17,000 so far this\u00a0 month,\u00a0according to the local station WFAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow in the world can anyone pay that? I mean you go from a couple hundred dollars a month\u2026there\u2019s absolutely no way\u201a it makes no sense,\u201d Williams, who said he received the bill from the energy firm Griddy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The price of power in Texas spiked from\u00a0$50 to $9,000 per Megawatt in some cases due to the supply and demand disaster, according to the station.<\/p>\n

Customers with so-called \u201cvariable or indexed\u201d electricity plans in Texas \u2014 the only state to run its own unique stand-alone electricity grid\u00a0 \u2014 are partially controlled by market demand.<\/p>\n

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Because of the demand for power in Texas, there were some cases where prices per megawatt jumped to $9000.<\/figcaption>
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That caused prices to increase as Texans who didn\u2019t lose power cranked up the heat amid brutally cold temperatures this week, an expert told NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last thing an awful lot of people need right now is a higher electric bill \u2014 and that\u2019s unfortunately something a lot of people will get stuck with,\u201d said Matt Schulz, a chief industry analyst.<\/p>\n

Royce Pierce, who lives in the Dallas suburb of Willow Park, said the electricity bill for his three-bedroom home soared to\u00a0 $10,000 over the past few days.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hoping there will be relief,\u201d Royce said. \u201cThis is something maybe we can skate by and tackle as time goes on but how many people can\u2019t? A lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Veronica Garcia, a Reliant Energy customer in Mansfield, Texas,\u00a0said the electricity bill for her one-bedroom apartment nearly doubled to $114 for her\u00a0 one-bedroom apartment.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully if they\u2019re decent, they won\u2019t charge people for this, because we had no control over the situation,\u201d said Garcia, who is an administrative associate at UT Southwestern Medical Center. \u201cHopefully I can beat the charges and they do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Reliant Energy spokeswoman told NBC that it\u2019s offering flexible bill payment options to support customers impacted by the storm.<\/p>\n

Griddy did not immedia<\/a>tely respond to a request for comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Homeowners hit with massive electric bills amid Texas winter storm” Texans say energy companies are on a power trip. Electric bills in the Lone Star State skyrocketed to as high as $17,000 per month after a historic storm and power outage sparked a high demand for heat,\u00a0according to reports Friday. Dallas-area resident Ty Williams was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Texas-electric.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94145,72150,94166,77183,6474,80303],"class_list":["post-183529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-19-21","tag-extreme-weather","tag-power-outage","tag-snow","tag-texas","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}