PowertoFail

An investigative record of Texas electricity rates — because PowerToChoose doesn't show you history.

Vol. I · No. 1 The Electric Gazette

Tracked regions

What you get

Real price history

PowerToChoose shows today's rates. We keep every snapshot, four times a day, so you can see what a provider actually charged last week, last month, and last quarter — and whether the plan being advertised to you now is a bait rate that will quietly reset in six months.

Conditional-rate flagging

Every Texas plan is required to publish an Electricity Facts Label. We read them. When a plan's headline rate depends on a usage-threshold bill credit, a free-hours window, or a tiered structure that breaks the moment your usage drifts off 1,000 kWh, it gets flagged before you click.

Your actual bill

Every plan page has a True Cost Calculator that runs the math on your usage, not the averages PowerToChoose ranks on. Have a year of Smart Meter Texas data? Shop by Usage scores every fixed-rate plan in the state against your own consumption — in your browser. Nothing uploads.

Cheapest on the grid, right now