A coworker of mine used Griddy before this event for about a year, but left it 6-9 months ago.
To answer your question 2/3, when I tried to congratulate him on getting out of it before the storm, he was still pretty down on it. He's an analytical type but his conclusion was that he lost $600 by being on it and wished he'd left it sooner.
When I looked around in Texas for power, my findings were that A) pricing averaged about 11cents/kWh, but if you looked to find the best rates, you could get about 6 cents/kWh. Which, post-storm, seems not that different from the wholesale rates with no tail risk.
To answer your question 2/3, when I tried to congratulate him on getting out of it before the storm, he was still pretty down on it. He's an analytical type but his conclusion was that he lost $600 by being on it and wished he'd left it sooner.
When I looked around in Texas for power, my findings were that A) pricing averaged about 11cents/kWh, but if you looked to find the best rates, you could get about 6 cents/kWh. Which, post-storm, seems not that different from the wholesale rates with no tail risk.