Houston resident Anthony Davis vividly remembers his lights flickering off and on for days as his family shivered through the frigid cold snap that crippled Texas’ isolated power grid in February 2021.
He also remembers the “sticker shock” that came next, when he checked his electricity bill from Griddy Energy, a Houston-based power provider that has since gone out of business. Despite the intermittent service, Griddy had automatically charged more than $600 to his credit card for just a few days of usage.
“I just shouldn’t have paid it,” Davis said. “But I didn’t want to mess up my credit.”…