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The Best Power to Choose Alternative

The Best Power to Choose Alternative

Get the real price you’ll pay, not the one advertised.

We all have to shop for electricity and let’s be honest, it’s not always easy.

More than 60 energy companies in Texas offer hundreds of different plans and kilowatt-hour rates, so how can anyone find the right plan and the most competitive rate?

Texans unaware of better options turn to the state’s powertochoose.org website.

The truth is that energy companies have been rigging PowertoChoose for years with price gimmicks that mislead Texans into thinking they’re getting a great deal.

As a result, the Power to Choose website often increases Texans’ electricity bills rather than lowering them.

You might overpay for energy if you choose a plan on the power to choose website simply because it is the cheapest price listed.

Let me illustrate with a real-world example. Take a look at the pricing of this electric plan taken from the PowertoChoose website.

Notice the advertised rates for this plan:

6.6c per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for 1000 kWh
7.0c per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for 500 kWh
6.5c per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for 2000 kWh

This is extremely critical to understand when shopping for electricity in Texas.

You only pay the advertised rate per kilowatt-hour when you use exactly 500, 1000, or 2000 kWh.

For any other usage, the price can vary greatly.

It is impossible to determine the cost of an electricity plan outside of the three reference points of 500, 1000, and 2000 kWh on the Power to Choose website.

Here we see the BIG problem with powertochoose.org

No one uses exactly 500, 1000, or 2000 kWh every single month.

So why would you shop based on those three usages alone?

What if you use 562kWh, or 1032 kWh, or 2354 kWh?

PowertoChoose.org cannot tell you the price of any of the plans for usages outside of 500, 1000, and 2000 kWh.

Furthermore, the rates you see on PowertoChoose.org are not always all-inclusive. You have to dig through the fine print in the EFL to find out.

Some energy companies make choosing a plan even more difficult by hiding the heaviest fees in the fine print of their plans.

In order to make the best decision, you need to know the price you will pay for YOUR home’s specific usage profile, not three arbitrary usage values that may not apply to you at all.

It is also important to look for all-inclusive rates.

ComparePower lets you shop all-inclusive rates with your usage in minutes.

Save with YOUR kWh usage👇🏽

After using ‘powertochoose.org’ for years, i finally stumbled upon Compare Power. Wow, what a difference! It was shocking to find different plans by the exact same retail electric providers at lower rates. Before i had simply assumed that ‘power to choose’ was the only place to shop for retail electric service. Other than the lower rates the best feature of Compare power was the bill calculation tool using my current usage history. I was able to see what my bill would have been had i signed up with Compare Power providers vs my old electric carriers. I used this feature multiple times(as i pay for 2 residences at 2 different consumption levels) before i made my final selections. Compare power really impressed me, It was a true life(money) saver!
Edward C. (TX, United States)

Shop with YOUR usage exclusively on ComparePower

We also felt befuddled when attempting to understand the differences between energy plans on the PowertoChoose website.

That’s the reason we decided to do something about it and fixed it.

Don’t waste hours of your time deciphering the EFL on PowertoChoose.

By entering any usage value, ComparePower users can compare the prices across all of our plans for that exact usage.

If you shop on PowertoChoose or even directly on any single provider’s website, you will have to calculate the cost for your home’s particular usage.

Guessing at the right plan and hoping for the best.

Not here. Get a complete pricing profile for any electricity plan in our marketplace.

Choosing the right plan no longer requires guessing based on three randomly chosen points of usage.

Know exactly what you are getting before you purchase.

Get the rate you’ll pay for YOUR usage and be confident that’s the price you’ll see on your electric bill.

Compare energy plans based on the usage of your home, not arbitrary points Texas electricity companies advertise.

The best energy plan for your Texas home is determined by comparing energy plans that match your home’s historical usage profile.

Enter your past energy usage data to estimate what you’ll pay for an entire year of service, taking into account bill credits and seasonal variations in usage due to temperature changes.

This is how electricity shopping ought to be done. Transparent and easy.

The #1 most important thing to know is your home's energy usage. 

This quick 2-minute video explains why shopping with your usage is so important.

I really appreciated Compare Power’s option to search plans based off past history usage. There are lots of plans to search from and having to keep up with all the different plan facts is time consuming and doesn’t always get you the info your looking for. I’d recommend this site to anyone shopping for a new provider.
Mike E (TX, United States)

What is Power to Choose?

Power to Choose is the official energy choice website of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, where you find and compare electricity prices, but there’s more you should know.

Many Texas residents who found their electricity plan on the state’s PowerToChoose website are unaware that they’re likely paying too much for electricity service.

ComparePower.com helps millions of Texans to save money on their electricity bills each year by choosing the best option based on their personal usage history.

Say goodbye to the cumbersome user interface of PowertoChoose.org

The Public Utility Commission of Texas designed an entire website to help customers through the process of choosing an energy company.

But this bare-bones service doesn’t cater to the individual or simplify the power to choose. It’s just more of the same information overload that confuses so many people in the first place!

Out of frustration with this, ComparePower was born.

Here you’ll find every fact you need to shop for the cheapest electricity in Texas without any of the pressure or misinformation that comes loaded into a sales pitch of going to the different provider websites individually.

Taking the headache out of sorting through mountains of information makes choosing the perfect energy plan a simpler process for everyone.

Streamlined Comparisons

Comparing energy plans requires the ability to see what they all have in common. But in a deregulated market, it’s tough to match plans side-by-side because they’re all so different.

Compare Power introduces a much-needed comparison portal that puts electric plans up against one another on a level playing field, much like Kayak.com or Expedia.com help you search for flights across all the different airlines.

With provider’s sales strategies of usage-based fees, fixed or variable rates, cash-back programs, and more types of alluring reward plans, it’s hard to figure out exactly what you’ll be paying.

We put these energy plans up against one another, head to head, in our apples-to-apples comparison platform. Everything’s in one place.

The clutter of the deregulated energy market has been picked apart for you. You’ll easily find the best deals without having to spend time clicking around and reading and navigating through the gimmicks.

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Seeing the Bigger Picture

Energy companies advertise their lowest pricing because it is the most attractive – not because it’s the most realistic.

These rates are usage-based, so unless your home is huge, you’ll likely never use enough electricity to get the pricing they advertise. It’s important for you to realize this.

ComparePower lets you conveniently see every plan available at the three different average usage levels displayed on facts labels: 500 kWh, 1000 kWh, and 2000 kWh.

You pick the level that applies to you and shop accordingly. Rockstar, right?

You’ll also have instant access to the Electricity Facts Label (EFL) and Terms of Service (TOS) for every plan you find.

You’ll never lose track of what plan you were looking at. We’ll provide everything you need to shop for the cheapest electricity in Texas, all on one screen, all in one place.

The Compare Power Advantage

For one, it’s Free. And better still, there is no bias and there are no hidden motives. Just a magical platform of unbiased comparison information to make finding and selecting your ideal electric rate simple.

Choosing a less expensive energy plan is one of the fastest ways to start saving money on your electric bill, and finding the cheapest electricity in Texas has never been easier.

Save with ComparePower👇🏽

ComparePower Texas

Use your Power to Choose your energy plan based on your usage with ComparePower, created to cut through the confusion and provide a real apples-to-apples comparison of the best plans from trusted and reliable electricity providers.

Very helpful, Compare Power makes switching providers stress-free.

“I plugged in my kWh usage from this past year & I could’ve been saving tons of money if I would have utilized this site & switched sooner!”

Ashley (TX, United States)

Moving to a new city is stressful, but shopping for an electric company was not!

Moving to a new city is stressful, but shopping for an electric company was not! It took less than 5 minutes to enter my info, compare quotes, and start service. I really like that you could search for renewable energy sources of electricity; it was my first time realizing that green energy was an option in my new area, and I feel good about opting for renewable rather than coal-generated electricity.

Sonia Y. (TX, United States)

I used to use Power To Choose…

“I used to use Power To Choose but this website is so much more user-friendly because it does all the energy calculations for me based on my usage history to find the best plan for our home!”

Natalie W. (TX, United States)

Super quick…

“Super quick and far better pricing than what I was paying! Thanks yall : )”

Doug D. (TX, United States)

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Power to Choose FAQs

How to use Power to Choose?

Use powertochoose.org at your own risk.

There is no way to find the best energy plan on powertochoose.org. This is because powertochoose.org only allows you to compare plans for usage of 500, 1000, or 2000 kWh.

Nobody uses exactly 500, 1000, or 2000 kWh each month. The cost of a power plan for any usage value outside 500, 1000, or 2000 kWh is unknown with powertochoose.org

On ComparePower, you can compare the prices of all energy plans at any usage level. Or, you can enter a full year’s worth of usage history and see which plan works best for YOUR home based on your usage history.

Shopping for energy in Texas has never been easier.

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Is there a better alternative to powertochoose.org in Texas?

ComparePower.com is the best alternative to Power to Choose in Texas.

Created to cut through the confusion and provide a real apples-to-apples comparison of the best plans from trusted and reliable electricity providers.

Start saving today 👉🏽