From No Power to Unaffordable Power: Texas Households Receive Electric Bills as High as $10,000 Due to Snowstorm - Yahoo Lifestyle

Texas is still recovering from the snowstorm that caused the state’s power grid to collapse and left millions without electricity during freezing weather.

According to the Post, the declaration allows “individuals and business owners in Texas to apply for federal emergency aid, including grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses and other recovery programs,” and hopefully the aid extends to Texans who now face electricity bills as high as $10,000 and even higher due to the storm it appears no one was ready for.

As the Texas power grid collapsed under a historic winter storm, Jose Del Rio of Haltom City, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, saw the electricity bill on a vacant two-bedroom home he is trying to sell slowly creep up over the past two weeks.

According to NBC, around 90 percent of Texas’ electricity is provided by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)—which has become the subject of much controversy because a lot of people seem to think Texas having its own non-federally regulated power grid has something to do with the disaster—but state residents both inside and outside of the ERCOT service area have reported electric bills that are as much as twice what they usually pay, and for some, the increase has been much higher.

But Warren-Clem also noted that it’s unclear if Texas laws that protect residents from utility companies that exploit natural disasters for profit extend to folks who are receiving these ridiculously high electric bills due to the recent storm.

Cristian Pavon's family was among the millions of people in Texas left without heat or power after a rare winter storm in the state this week.

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Texans turned to TikTok to share their experiences during the unprecedented winter storm that left millions without heat.

As of Wednesday, nearly 3 million people were still without power in Texas, days after a winter storm overwhelmed the state's power grid