“My savings is gone,” said Scott Willoughby, a 63-year-old Army veteran who lives on Social Security payments in a Dallas suburb. For customers whose electricity prices are not fixed and are instead tied to the fluctuating wholesale price, the spikes have been astronomical. Greg Abbott, a Republican, to hold an emergency meeting with legislators Saturday to discuss the enormous bills. Then Upshaw, 33, saw that his utility bill from Griddy had risen to more than $6,700. “I finally decided the other day, if we were going to pay these high prices, we weren’t going to freeze,” she said.

Source: Libya Today February 21, 2021 13:41 UTC