• The electric price offers for residential consumers have fallen more than 28 percent since July 2008, when natural gas prices were at an all time high. Texas serves as the most recent example of how competitive markets across the nation are continuing to outperform monopoly structures.
“The ERCOT Competitive Market is Responsible to Recent Drops in Natural Gas Prices,” Association of Electric Companies of Texas, January 2009
• The average competitive price of electricity today is 9.46% below the average 2001 regulated price and 8.71% below the national average.
Texas Public Policy Foundation, January 2010