Entergy Texas Inc. late fee
Texas · Investor Owned
Entergy Texas Inc. charges 5% for a residential electric bill paid late.
- Percentage fee
- 5% of the past-due balance
- Grace period
- 16 days
- Can disconnect
- Yes, for non-payment
- Percentile
- Higher than 51% of US utilities that charge a percentage fee
- Residential customers
- 457,369
Late fees versus bad debt, 2024
- Late-fee revenue
- $2,933,797 (FERC account 450, Forfeited Discounts)
- Written off
- $11,446,559 (FERC account 904, Uncollectible Accounts)
- Ratio
- 0.26x
Source: US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC Form 1, accounts 450 and 904 (18 CFR Part 101), retrieved via the Public Utility Data Liberation project. Municipal utilities and most cooperatives do not file Form 1, so no ratio is available for them.
Disconnections in 2024
- Disconnections
- 53,334 for non-payment
- Rate
- 11.66 per 100 residential customers
- Final notices
- 879,474
- Reconnections
- 48,918
Counts are disconnection events, not households. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-112. See how this compares.
5% one-time penalty on the delinquent balance if not paid within 16 days; not re-applied to already-penalized balances (Entergy Texas PUCT tariff).
Source: https://interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/53719_3_1219395.PDF