{"id":185373,"date":"2021-03-01T15:45:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=185373"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:45:36","slug":"texas-ag-sues-electric-supplier-griddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-ag-sues-electric-supplier-griddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas AG sues electric supplier Griddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-ag-sues-electric-supplier-griddy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=185373&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2380109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2380109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HOUSTON, TEXAS \u2013 FEBRUARY 21: The U.S. and Texas flags flew in front of high voltage transmission towers on February 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas.&nbsp; (Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:40 PM PT \u2013 Monday, March 1, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued an electricity supplier for \u201cfalse, misleading and deceptive practices.\u201d On Monday, Paxton said power company Griddy misled customers by signing them up for services that ended up costing them thousands after February\u2019s winter storm.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We filed the first official lawsuit this morning against Griddy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9rDNT7Gyjm\">https:\/\/t.co\/9rDNT7Gyjm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenPaxtonTX\/status\/1366425942952972294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He added that his office will not allow Texans to be \u201cdeceived or exploited by unlawful behavior.\u201d The lawsuit came on the heels of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas revoking Griddy\u2019s right to operate for missed payments.<\/p>\n<p>Customers received bills in the thousands of dollars after the recent cold snap caused rates to inflate due to high demand from energy consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell it\u2019s wild, we\u2019re in the middle of a pandemic, Texas having record breaking weather,\u201d Texas resident Deandre Upshaw said. \u201cThe last thing that I\u2019m thinking about while I\u2019m trying to get gas and groceries and making sure my pipes don\u2019t explode, the last thing I\u2019m expecting is a $7,000 bill from my utility company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In total, Texas energy companies missed over $2 billion in payments to ERCOT. The deficit could lead to a federal intervention of the power grid.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/n-y-gov-cuomo-grants-state-ags-request-to-conduct-independent-probe-into-sexual-harassment-allegations\/\">N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Grants State AG\u2019s Request To Conduct Independent Probe Into Sexual Harassment Allegations<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, TEXAS \u2013 FEBRUARY 21: The U.S. and Texas flags flew in front of high voltage transmission towers on February 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas.\u00a0 (Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274482,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}