Retail Electric Providers

Spark Energy is a Retail Electric Provider based out of Houston Texas. They began business back in 2002 when Texas deregulated and have maintained a strong and growing position in the Texas Electricity market.

TXU Energy is the incumbent retail electric provider in the North region of Texas, Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. When Texas deregulated the retail electric market TXU broke off of their pole and wires company to only sell retail electricity along with their power generation division. Oncor Electric Delivery became the name of what was previously called TXU Electric Delivery which services and owns the meters, poles and wires. The Texas state government ERCOT have worked out an agreement with TXU Energy that if any Retail Electric Provider in this region were to go bankrupt and the electric customers would be automatically switched to the POLR or TXU as way to insure continued electricity service to those affected. Because of the great work by ERCOT and the POLR system Texas is the benchmark state on how deregulation should be done.

Amigo Energy was founded in 2003 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Houston based energy management firm Fulcrum Power Services LP. Fulcrum had annual revenue of $410 million in 2006 and now allows Amigo to serve large and medium sized commercial electric customers throughout Texas with good pricing, accurate billing, and an in house developed back office. About 50 percent of Amigo's customer base is Hispanic.

Occidental Energy Marketing, Inc. (OEMI), Oxy’s marketing division, provides comprehensive crude oil, natural gas and power marketing and related risk management services in Texas. OEMI is one of the top 10 natural gas marketers in North America, with trading volume exceeding 4.5 billion cubic feet per day. They are just beginning to offer commercial businesses in Texas the option to buy energy from them. They currently only accept energy customers that are using atleast 2 megawatt hours of electricity or more a year. Their company is large and the entry into the Texas commercial electricity market will be slow but they promise to deliver accurate billing and competitive prices.

Reliant is the incumbent Retail Electric Provider in the Houston Texas area and at one time owned both the retail electric division that sells the energy to residences and commercial businesses and the pole and wires company that owns and services the electric lines. Texas deregulated the Texas electric market back in 2002 and broke off Reliant from the pole and wires company Centerpoint. They are now rebranded as Reliant Energy and Centerpoint now only provides pole and wire transmission and distribution services. Reliant has worked out a deal with Texas ERCOT to be the POLR or Provider Of Last Resort. What this means is if you were to sign up with an electric company that later on goes bankrupt during the course of the electricity agreement you would be switched back to Reliant Energy with no interruption in service. This POLR setup created by the ERCOT deregulation organization has become a benchmark in how to do deregulation in other states and continues to effectively provide for continued uninterrupted electric service as new energy companies come and go in the Texas retail energy market.

Champion Energy Services is partially owned by Lehman Brothers company but has been bought out by a large investor in the Texas energy market. Champion was bought out prior to Lehman's financial disaster and remains a strong well-capitalized retail electric provider (REP) in Texas. They have consistently provided competitive electric power service to residential, commercial and industrial (C&I) businesses in Texas for several years. They have wide access to wholesale power supply sources and tremendous experience in commodity marketplaces. Although there have been issues in the past as they were bought and sold by several companies they have now settled down and the in house customer service platform they have now ensures you will receive accurate and straightforward billing.

Cirro Energy is located in Richardson, Texas, and has several thousand customers in this state. This electric company is a licensed Retail Electric Provider (REP) in Texas and has been doing business as Cirro Corporation right before Texas deregulated in 2002. For several years what Cirro Energy meant as flexible electricity contracts was actually an energy contract that had a clause that basically allowed them to raise your commercial electric rate at anytime without reason even though you signed what looked very similar to a fixed electric rate contract. The commercial energy contracts they are offering now no longer have a fuel surcharge or that clause that allows them to raise the rate for no reason but they do have the option to terminate the contract at anytime. This new clause in their commercial energy contract means that you are still not signing a true fixed electric rate contract. If the market were to go against Cirro Energy's risk management and energy hedges they could cancel all unprofitable energy contracts leaving a Texas business at the mercy of a much higher market rate they would have to negotiate with another retail electric provider.

Cirro's residential electricity plans right now are very similar to their old commercial energy contracts. They have what appears to be the most competitive residential electric rate but when reading closer they are asking that you sign a 12 month agreement for a variable energy rate. You are basically signing up on an energy product that looks good the first month but can then be raised for any reason during the course of the agreement. If you shop around you will notice that most other Texas electric companies offering variable electric rate products leave the agreement as a month to month contract, meaning you can get out of the contract without penalty at anytime. In comparison, Cirro Energy would charge you an early termination penalty for leaving their variable energy rate product. At this time Cirro Energy has enough problems in their contracts for us to recommend that you look elsewhere.

Mega Energy is a brand new electric company in Texas and has estimated annual sales of 5.5 million dollars. They currently have about 25 employees. They are entering both the commercial electricity market and the residential electric market. They have hired on well seasoned professionals from Gexa Energy to assist in ramping them up for selling commercial electricity. Their residential electricity terms of service has good terms and conditions accept for a slightly high early termination penalty of $200. All and all the company looks good. This is a new provider so we still have to wait and see how billing, customer service, and pricing goes. Anyone with more information should write in a comment letting us know how they are doing.

Their D-U-N-S number is 801176327 and the Partner financing this operation is Javed Meghani. The official name of the company is Mega Energy, Lp and they are located at 7500 Bellaire Blvd Houston, TX 77036-5018 United States.

Mega Energy Phone: 713-779-4653

Constellation NewEnergy describes themselves as North America's #1 competitive energy supplier and some would agree with this statement and some do not. They have about 20 employees in their Houston offices according to information from sources found online and assist primarily in procuring electricity for commercial businesses. Constellation NewEnergy is a very large electric company with a conservative energy hedging and sales approach. They have been in the commercial energy markets in the beginning of restructuring and deregulation in Texas. They know how to properly put together competitive pricing for commercial businesses but many other energy companies are beginning to do the same thing and there is now plenty of competition in the Texas market fighting for the same customers. Multiple new electric providers have entered the market and have taken valuable commercial business away this electric provider. Constellation NewEnergy continues to grow and change with the ever changing energy market in Texas.





Manager Ms Stephanie Gardner
500 Dallas St Ste 3010
Houston, TX 77002-4804 United States (Map)
Phone: 713-658-1041

Manager Mr Kevin Jordan
1221 Lamar St Ste 50
Houston, TX 77010-3000 United States