Dave Lieber, The Dallas Morning News Watchdog, writes that Texas electric companies are "now" charging no minimum usage fees.

We are reminded that in a Houston Chronicle review of Power To Choose offers, about one-third of REPs listed plans containing no penalties or credits based on power use, so we don't see anything new in the offering of no-fee plans, despite the outrage over their supposed prior ubiquity

Lieber also noted the new minimum usage fee/usage credit filter on Power to Choose, which was first reported by RetailEnergyX.com

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