Get Your Rate Comparison Now

MENU

Get Your Rate Comparison Now

Compare Leading Texas
Electricity Companies

Compare Leading Texas
Electricity Companies

Compare Texas Electricity Companies And Make The Most Confident Choice

Savings Tips

Updated: 10/12/2020

Savings Tips photo

PPL Plans to Remove Off-peak Rate Program

In 2011, PPL Electric Utilities offered customers with smart-meter technology in their homes or businesses a way to cash in with cheaper electricity rates if they used power at off-peak times. It didn’t go so well. Customers jumped in and ...

Read More
Savings Tips photo

Court Ruling May Increase Electric Rates in Illinois

Electricity prices in Chicago, Illinois could increase by 20 percent as a result of a court ruling that would halt the long-standing practice of paying big power users to reduce their demand during peak periods such as hot summer days. ...

Read More
Savings Tips photo

PSEG Long Island Reduces Central Air Conditioning Cooling

PSEG Long Island remotely adjusted the central air conditioners of some 30,000 customers in an effort to cut peak electrical use due to hot weather, officials said. The "curtailment" program allows the utility to cut energy use in participating homes ...

Read More
Savings Tips photo

Penn Power Offers Energy Conservation Program

Pennsylvania Power Company (Penn Power) is offering low-income customers an opportunity to make their homes efficient and save money on their electric bills by enrolling in the WARM energy conservation program. The WARM program is available to both homeowners and ...

Read More
Savings Tips photo

Maryland Utilities Seek Wholesale Electric Providers

The Potomac Edison Co. (PE), Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. (BGE), Delmarva Power (DP), and Pepco have issued Requests for Proposals for wholesale electric power supply to meet their obligations in the Maryland service territories. Each utility will provide market-based ...

Read More
Savings Tips photo

Direct Energy Taking CNG to Commercial Customers

The commercial retail energy division of Direct Energy has partnered with compressed natural gas (CNG) station developer American Natural Gas LLC (ANG) in order to aid Direct Energy Business in bringing CNG refueling infrastructure to its fleet and commercial customers. ...

Read More
Savings Tips photo

New Energy-Use Monitors Help Customers Save on Electric

For Carly McFetridge, the ability to monitor energy consumption in her home in real time is a lesson in self-awareness. “I’m of the boomer generation so for me, we just didn’t grow up having to be aware of conservation or ...

Read More
Savings Tips photo

BGE Smart Meters are Costing Customers

The Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) Smart Meter program is good for the company and punishes the opt-out consumer. The only way consumers benefit is if they choose not to bake, do laundry or vacuum on the days BGE chooses ...

Read More
Savings Tips photo

Direct Energy Releases New Services

Direct Energy is counting on the integration of electricity and technology for growth as it hedges to cut its exposure to volatile power markets. Direct is focused on bundling traditional power services with devices that help customers use less energy, ...

Read More
Savings Tips photo

Central Hudson Plans to Increase Electric Rates

The New York utility, Central Hudson Gas and Electric, filed a rate plan with the state Public Service Commission (PSC) at the end of July which will see a service increase for customers starting in 2015 in order to modernize ...

Read More

Load More