
Texas winter might be fading into the rearview mirror, but the financial wreckage it left behind is just now hitting your bank account. While you expected your utility bills to drop as the temperatures warmed up, the opposite is happening for thousands of families across the Lone Star State. It feels like a betrayal to see a higher statement when you haven’t touched the thermostat in weeks. You are likely wondering how the math could possibly add up in favor of the electric company. The truth is that the hidden costs of our energy grid are finally hitting the people who can least afford them.