Many consumers still don’t understand how the Texas electricity marketplace operates. Many small businesses don’t realize how drastically electric plans may differ from one electricity company to another. They do not understand just how much money they may save by looking for a lower electric rate. Some wrongly believe that moving over to a new electric company means that they are last in line getting electricity back when there’s an electricity outage. The reality is the electric lines that delivers the electricity from the source of electricity to homes and businesses are all managed by the same people known as the TBSPs irrespective of the electricity company on your bill. The electricity all goes across identical utility lines. If you have a power failure it’s the exact same teams that will do the repair work no matter your provider. They have no reason favor one electricity provider’s customers before another. .
The places which are deregulated get their electricity coming from the state’s electricity grid, which is controlled by ERCOT.
TDSPs transmit the electricity. They are in the business of sustaining the wires and reading the meters and providing the amount of power that is used to the REPs. When there is a power interruption they will be in the business of reinstating services.
