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Electrical power was deregulated in Texas several years ago and you can purchase it from one of several different providers. Of course, the electricity to your home comes from the same grid as everyone else but the point is that you pay your provider to ensure that an equivalent amount of power that you use gets put onto the grid. I pay for a plan which is "100% wind" which costs a mere 3.3% more than the most common provider (which comes mostly from coal and natural gas plants). That's almost no difference at all (less than $10 per month for me) and yet there are very few subscribers here who use it. I would love to see the majority of the people here sign up for it. We might be able to shut down some coal plants that way. But the bottom line is that no one cares. Or they don't know enough to care.
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