Working from home in Texas? Your electricity plan might not be set up for it

If you set up your electricity plan when you first moved in and haven't thought about it since, you're not alone. Most people pick something, forget about it, and just pay whatever shows up each month. But if you've started working from home, your usage profile has probably changed more than you realize.

When you're out of the house most of the day, your biggest draw is the AC keeping a baseline temp while nobody's there. Add in evenings and weekends and that's when most of your usage actually happens. A standard fixed rate plan is built around that pattern and it makes sense for a lot of people.

WFH flips that. You're running the AC harder during the day because someone's actually in the house. Add a monitor, laptop, lights, and maybe a second screen and the daytime hours start doing a lot more work on your bill than they used to.

That's where the structure of your plan starts to matter. A time-of-use plan that credits back energy during certain hours can work really well for a WFH setup, depending on when those free hours fall. Just Energy's Days Free plan credits back electricity used between 9am and 4pm every day. For someone home during those hours, that's covering a significant chunk of daily usage including peak AC hours.

It's not the right fit for everyone. If your household is mostly active in the evenings or on weekends, a different plan structure might make more sense. But if your schedule has shifted toward daytime usage, it's worth looking at whether your current plan actually reflects how you live now.

Happy to answer questions about how to figure out which plan fits your usage pattern.