One small business owner recently received an electricity bill for more than $80,000.
"I thought it was a mistake, there is no way I can be charged that much," said Melanie Tawater, owner of Image Nation Salon in the Village at Allen.The description from her property manager, DLC, also stood out. It was for service in February and March 2021. At the peak of the power crisis in February 2021, wholesale rates spiked to $9,000 per megawatt hour, which left customers with variable rate plans vulnerable to huge bills.
But Gharbia remembered hearing statements by State Senator Kelly Hancock, who told a Tarrant County town hall meeting in January that lawmakers were providing financial assistance to electric companies who absorbed massive wholesale costs."And so we began, immediately, putting together packages, and so we ended up passing three different pieces of legislation addressing that that really saved our economy and helped spread out a lot of those costs," Hancock said in January.
FOX 4 asked Senator Hancock's office why the legislation he helped pass is not helping customers in this case.
Sounds like bullshit to me!🤪