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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.

The mission of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is to direct and ensure reliable and cost-effective operation of the electric grid and to enable fair and efficient market-driven solutions to meet Texas customers’ electric service needs.

This Texas government site provides consumer information on what exactly the Texas PUC does to assist in regulating the utilities like our retail electricity we buy for our homes and businesses. After exhausting trying to resolve your issue with the retail electric provider you can go to the PUCT's website and issue a formal complaint against the Texas Retail Electric Provider that has wronged you. It is good to exhaust all resources and keep a record of any evidence and communications you have had with the electric company in order to succesfully win a case against an electric company. If the case is heard and accepted you may need to hire a lawyer to pursue the matter further.

Tara Energy started business back in 2002 just as "Electricity Deregulation" in Texas was beginning. Tara Energy is located in the energy hub, Houston Texas and is a licensed Retail Electricity Provider (REP). Tara sells electric service to commercial and residential customers in Texas. Lately they have offered a competitive residential electric rate with a few other providers beating them by only a small fraction. Tara Energy's commercial contract is objectionable as they have labeled a couple of additional charges in their contract "official names" and many pass these off as being a part of the TDSP charges that are normally past through on a 1 to 1 basis by the pole and wires company. These additional charges if added into the commercial "energy only" rate would show their rate to be uncompetitive but since they section these charges out unlike most other energy providers in Texas you may think you are getting a better electric rate then you really are.

TEPA qualified electricity professional are Texas electricity experts that understand the intricacies of the Texas electricity market. TEPA professionals are aggregators, brokers, and consultants (A/B/C) which have demonstrated an in depth knowledge of the Texas electricity deregulation rules & regulations as well as the growing number of counterparties involved. By working with a TEPA professional, you are leveraging the purchasing power, knowledge and industry network capabilities that only a TEPA professional can provide. In addition, TEPA professionals are held to the highest of ethical standards.

Each potential TEPA applicant must go through a rigorous application process including detailed experiences, industry references, services offered and be sponsored by a TEPA professional.

The TEPA organization works with the PUCT, energy consultants, and retail electric providers on behalf of commercial and industrial businesses in Texas in order to assist in making the market a better place for Texas electric customers. As new problems and issues develop TEPA uses their pull to make sure these problems are dealt with by the PUCT instead of being pushed under the rug left for the Texas energy customer to deal with on their own.

You can use this Texas government site to learn about electric competition in Texas and obtain information to help you make informed decisions about your electricity service and Retail Electric Provider.

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.

This is a slightly new take on how to sell electricity in Texas with similarities to both Ignite Energy and Ambit Energy. This is a relatively new Texas MLM start up that sells electricity through a large independent sales base which increases their sales organization through word of mouth and enthusiastic sells pep rallies throughout the state of Texas. The company began business back in 2005 and are a licensed REP registered with the PUCT under the number 10105. Their electric rate information on their site is out of date from back in October 2007 and in order to get a updated price you need to email or call the company. This is a very small up start and has the potential to balloon into a sales organization much like Ignite or Ambit Energy. The downside to the smaller Retail Electric Providers like this is an untested customer service and billing system. Signing up with an energy company with no track record can pose a risk although at the most if there were an issue the risk can be summed up in one word, frustration! Hopefully this company does well as the underdog in the ever growing list of Retail Electric Providers in Texas.

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.

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.