Accuracy and Disclaimer
Where this site could be wrong, what its figures do and do not mean, and how to get a correction made.
Last updated 15 August 2026.
This site publishes a lot of numbers and argues a position. Both of those create ways to be wrong, and this page says plainly where those ways are.
The comparison tool is a model, not a quote
It reconstructs what a bill would come to under the CPS Energy tariff and under each competitive offer, using published rate documents and the PUCT’s own offer export. It is careful work and it reproduces real published bills closely, but:
- It is not an offer and not a price quote. No provider is bound by anything shown here.
- Rates change constantly. The tool works from a snapshot, and the collection date is shown with every result.
- Read the Electricity Facts Label before you sign anything. The EFL is the binding document. If it disagrees with this site, the EFL is right.
- Home sizes are averages. Choosing “mid-size home” prices a typical Texas household, not yours. Entering your own twelve months of bills removes that limitation, and is the most accurate thing the tool can do.
- Some charges are deliberately excluded because they have no counterpart on the other side of the comparison — City of San Antonio pass-through fees on a CPS bill, for instance. The full method and its known limits are on the Sources page.
Do not treat any figure here as the reason you switched providers. Treat it as a reason to go and check.
“What people actually paid” measures something different
The realized prices from federal filings — competitive retailers at 16.66¢ against CPS Energy at 12.43¢ — describe a whole year of billing across every household in Texas. They include people who never shopped, contracts that lapsed onto month-to-month rates, and fees. They are not a prediction of what you personally will pay if you shop carefully, and subtracting one from the other will not give you your own bill. Source
Campaign finance is a name match, not an accusation
The figures on The Retailers come from the Texas Ethics Commission’s own filings. A committee is credited to a company only where the committee’s own registered name says so, and every figure is published with the name exactly as filed and the TEC filer number so you can pull the same record.
Two things this does not do. It does not claim that any contribution bought any outcome — a contribution is a fact, what it achieved is not in the filings. And it does not allege wrongdoing by anyone: contributing to Texas campaigns through a registered committee is lawful and ordinary. If an attribution here is not supported by the filing, tell us and it comes off the site.
Not advice, not affiliated, not authorised by anyone
- Nothing here is legal, financial, tax or professional advice.
- This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by CPS Energy, the City of San Antonio, the PUCT, ERCOT, the EIA, the Texas Ethics Commission, or any electricity provider.
- It is not authorised by, paid for by, or coordinated with any candidate, campaign, political party or political committee. It is paid for by one resident.
- Company names appear because those companies are the subject, not because they are involved.
Opinion versus fact
The conclusion — that San Antonio should keep a utility it owns — is an opinion, and reasonable people disagree with it. The figures used to reach it are meant to be facts, each traceable to a primary document through the Sources page. Where something is derived rather than published, such as CPS Energy’s implied average wage, the page says so at the point the number appears.
The comparison tool is deliberately built to be able to contradict the campaign, and in several Texas markets it does — the typical advertised offer currently beats CPS Energy. That result is published rather than buried, because a tool that could only produce one answer would not be worth using.
If something here is wrong
It matters more to us than the argument does. Send a correction — which figure, on which page, and where you think the right one comes from. It gets checked against the source and corrected.
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