Next year, most all will have the power to choose. Amid all this change some things will remain the same.
Most REPs advertise lower rates or better service to bring in customers.
Environmental Impact Energy deregulation could boost the use of renewables in several ways. First, the deregulation bill passed by the Texas legislature in 1999, Senate Bill 7, requires retail electric providers to buy an additional combined 2,000 megawatts of Texas renewable electric generation capacity by January 2009. Texas will end up producing about 10 times as much non-hydro renewable electricity as it does now. And, in the whole United States, there are only about 2,500 megawatts of non-hydro renewable energy being produced. Deregulation also allows the public to support renewables through their electricity bills.