Is electricity cheaper at night
If you work outside of your home during the day and tend to use more electricity at night or on the weekends, it is certainly beneficial to see if your utility company offers time-of-use (TOU)...
How to Heat a Basement in Winter
Basements are more commonly being used as living spaces as opposed to storage in homes. Gone are the days where cold and drafty basements are overlooked as homeowners seek to make them fully f...
Rights of Electricity Consumers
As a participant of a competitive electricity market (particularly if you live in a deregulated energy market), it is important to know the rights and responsibilities you have as a consumer t...
The Cost of Powering the Millennium Falcon
Despite its humble beginnings as Lando Calrissian’s dingy interstellar ride, the famed Millennium Falcon is now perhaps the most beloved spaceship of all time—fictional or otherwise. A Sta...
Summer Savings Video Series
Getting Your Family Involved in Summertime Savings
Where Does Electricity Come From?
Electricity is a necessity that is crucial to modern lifestyles and is often taken for granted. It powers our communication, our transportation, and our households, yet we don't know what elec...
12 Days of Savings Video Series: Rules
12 Days of Savings Rules For December 2019, Payless Power will be pausing the weekly Bright Ideas contest and running a special video series with an even larger prize of $500. From ...
8 Reasons People are Moving to Texas
Thinking about heading south and moving to Texas? You're not alone. The Lone Star state is home to 28.7 million people and that number is exponentially growing as more ethnically diverse young...
The Cost of Living in Houston
Are you thinking about moving to a major Texas city in the near future? Many Texans and transplants from other parts of the country love the eccentricity of Austin and the traditional Texas cu...
The Best Power Saving Mode For Your Computer: Sleep vs Hibernate
We’ve all heard conflicting information about supposedly smart ways of managing our technology. This extends to everything from the expected lifetime of phones to the charge time of tablets....
