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increase font size Some Texans got electric bills up to $17,000 after the storm – how does that happen? In the state s unregulated utility market, the wholesale price of electricity spiked more than 10,000 percent last week. By Meryl Kornfield and Paulina FiroziThe Washington Post Read Article Dallas resident Ivet Cantu, 45, owes $3,114.27 in utilities after the recent bout of severe cold weather. In Texas’ deregulated electricity market, Griddy and some other power suppliers charge customers wholesale variable rates per kilowatt-hour. Ben Torres/The Dallas Morning News via AP They kept the lights off, limited their use of electronics and scarcely watched television, except to catch up at night on the bone-chilling news of the winter storms brutalizing their area.

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