The bill that started a business

The honest answer: a confusing electric bill and a kitchen table. Ours didn't add up. The rate wasn't the rate we signed up for, and a "credit" vanished because we used slightly too little electricity. Nobody at the table could explain it.

Brooks took that problem to the Young Entrepreneurs Academy, where students build real businesses, not class projects. The pitch: Texans shouldn't need a spreadsheet and a law degree to know what electricity costs. So this site shows its arithmetic, tells you when you can't switch, and discloses how it gets paid before recommending anything.

Because Brooks is a minor, her dad Victor operates the company and carries the legal responsibility: the broker registration, the compliance, the consequences if we get it wrong. That's why this site is more careful than it has to be.

You probably shouldn't, not on faith anyway. Comparison sites earn commissions from the providers they list, this one included. Most bury that in a footer. We put it before every recommendation, and you never have to take our word for a number:

• Every ranking shows its arithmetic: rate, delivery fees, and bill credits at your usage.
• Every plan links to its official Electricity Facts Label so you can check us.
• Commissions never affect rankings. The cheapest plan for your usage is the cheapest plan, period. The full method is public.
• If your area isn't deregulated, we say so. No plan list, no false hope.

We're registered with the Public Utility Commission of Texas as broker #BR240033, and our plan data comes from the Compare Power marketplace across all five deregulated utility territories.