New Electricity Surcharge for Commercial Users in Texas

Posted 1/14/2009

Texas Levies Surcharges on Your Commercial Electric Bill

The Texas government has recently decided to add a new surcharge to your commercial businesses electric bill. If you operate a commercial or industrial business in the state of Texas and are paying for electricity then you qualify for the additional surcharge on your electric bill regardless of the electric company you have chosen to sell you electricity. Starting on 12/29/2008 for the Oncor Electric Delivery area (Dallas, Fort Worth) which is most of North Texas, and West Texas. Starting 2/2/09 for the the CenterPoint Energy utility area (Houston, Harris and Fort Bend Counties and South Texas) your electricity bill will now have a surcharge added under the TDSP line item. The new surcharge is called “Transmission and Distribution Service Provider (TDSP) Meter Surcharge” and is based on your businesses kW demand.

How to Avoid the Electric Surcharge

To keep this surcharge down you, should understand it as a “demand” charge. If you randomly use lots of electrical energy at one time the grid will have to stand ready to meet your need. This is expensive and hence the need for the charge. It sends a message to users that it is better for us all if commercial businesses in Texas can spread out their peak electric usage. But for those that can’t. let them pay the additional cost of having stand-by energy ready. So you will want to limit the amount of large machines running at the same time in your commercial facility. The KW demand increases the more machines, appliances, printers, lights, etc you have on at the same time regardless of how long they are on. Your KwH usage is the amount of electricity you use in total but does not apply to this surcharge which is based totally on demand usage. This electricity surcharge is officially a PUCT-approved pass-through fee. There are electric providers out there that will extrapolate some of the fees from the “energy only” charge and place it in the TDSP line item to make their electric rate look better. This is not one of those charges or schemes. No matter the Texas electric company you may be using you will begin to see this new surcharge on your electric bill. Another way to lower costs is to compare your Texas commercial electric rates. You can compare commercial electric rates here http://cheaptexaselectricrates.com

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