A Texas woman sues an electric company after her bill was nearly $10,000
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Updated: 11:25 AM CST Feb 25, 2021
By Konstantin Toropin
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Updated: 11:25 AM CST Feb 25, 2021
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$13,000 for seven days of power. Akila Scott Amos is one of thousands of Texans now saddled with a huge electricity bill more than $13,000 for her house and spring, another 2000 for her organic body products business. She chose to go with gritty AH wholesale electricity provider that has saved her money. She knew she'd be subject to varying costs, but never expected this. This is robbery. This is robbery and if your whole mean is to make a profit while people are suffering or going through something, that's that's just not right. Tomorrow, the Texas Legislature begins investigative hearings on the state's power grid failure, and it's manager, ERCOT. During an emergency board meeting today, ERCOT officials said the grid was a mere four minutes and 37 seconds from total collapse. Last week, 356 power generators were knocked offline due to weather issues. Had they not implemented controlled outages, Texas would have been in the dark for weeks. That is why I have made it a legislative priority to mandate and to fund the winterization and stabilization of the Texas power infrastructure. But Democrats say all of this should have come sooner. Experts have been raising red flags for years. Something didn't go right in terms of planning and appointing members. While the state Legislature will be considering reform. Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia, once the county to explore leaving ERCOT all together. I am fully confident that we will be able to get to a place where we can find a pathway that is better than what we got. It makes absolutely no sense. Achilles got. Amos says Something must change. Gritty has given her five months to pay off her bill. We need regulation, a Sfar as this. There's no reason why people should go into debt.