Eleven Just Energy Plans Are Amigo Energy Plans With New Names — All 25 Houston Prices at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh (Sept 2026)

Updated on September 28, 2026

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By Christopher Burg · Last updated September 10, 2026

Just Energy sells 25 electricity plans in Houston, and at least eleven of them are the same plans its sister brand Amigo Energy sells under different names, priced to the tenth of a cent. On September 10, 2026, Just Energy’s Houston card ran from 7.0¢ to 23.8¢ per kWh at ZIP 77002 depending on plan and usage. Below is every Just Energy plan at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh, the name-by-name overlap with Amigo, the post-bankruptcy ownership picture, and the one complaint category where Just Energy leads every large Texas brand.

What is Just Energy?

Just Energy is a retail energy group headquartered in Houston that sells electricity and natural gas in deregulated markets across the United States and Canada, under its own name and through a family of brands that includes Amigo Energy, Tara Energy, Hudson Energy, Terrapass, Filter Group and Interactive Energy Group. In Texas it competes in every deregulated delivery territory, and its Houston plan card is one of the largest in the market at 25 residential plans.

The company’s recent history shapes what it sells today. Just Energy filed for protection under Canada’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and Chapter 15 in the United States in March 2021, after February’s winter storm left it holding a quarter-billion dollars in ERCOT charges. It closed a sale transaction on December 16, 2022, to the lenders under its debtor-in-possession facility, an affiliate of theirs and the holder of certain assigned secured claims; its common shares were cancelled and delisted, and press coverage identified the buying group as funds managed by PIMCO. Just Energy has operated as a private company owned by those former creditors since. The practical effect for a Texas shopper is that Just Energy is no longer a public company you can research through quarterly filings, and that its plan design leans heavily on bill credits — the pricing structure that produces the biggest headline discounts.

Just Energy plans and rates in Houston (September 10, 2026)

These are all 25 plans Just Energy displayed for ZIP 77002 (CenterPoint Energy delivery area) on September 10, 2026, after loading the full list. Prices are Just Energy’s own displayed average price per kWh at each usage level and include CenterPoint delivery charges; taxes are extra. Every plan is fixed-rate and offers an optional 100% JustGreen renewable add-on for $9.99 a month. Oncor, AEP Texas and TNMP addresses will differ by the delivery charge.

Source: enroll.justenergy.com, ZIP 77002, viewed September 10, 2026 at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh with all 25 plans loaded. Rates change weekly; read the Electricity Facts Label before enrolling.

Just Energy and Amigo Energy sell the same plans under different names

Both brands belong to Just Energy Group and run the same enrollment platform. We priced both at ZIP 77002 on September 10, 2026, and eleven plans matched to the tenth of a cent at all three usage levels — same credit thresholds, same free-hour windows, same structure, different names. This is the table nobody publishes.

Source: enroll.justenergy.com and enroll.amigoenergy.com, ZIP 77002, both viewed September 10, 2026. Comparison compiled by myutilitysearch.com. Note that the Smart Choice 24 / Bright 75 Plus 12 pair carries different advertised terms and credit amounts despite identical displayed pricing — read each Electricity Facts Label.

The remaining plans differ, sometimes meaningfully: Just Energy’s Free Nights 12 was 16.1¢ / 15.1¢ / 14.6¢ against Amigo’s 15.9¢ / 15.0¢ / 14.5¢, and Just Energy’s Base Saver Plus 24 was about six tenths of a cent above Amigo’s Weekends Free 24 at every level. So the brands are not perfect clones — but if you shop Just Energy and then “check Amigo for a second opinion,” you are mostly re-reading the same rate card with the marketing changed.

Which Just Energy plan is cheapest for your home?

At exactly 1,000 kWh, Smart Choice 12 at 7.0¢ is the lowest price on this card and one of the lowest in Houston, because a $125 credit lands on a 1,000 kWh bill. The same plan is 20.0¢ at 500 kWh. That gap is the entire product: a household that averages 1,000 kWh but drops to 900 in a mild month pays roughly triple the rate that month. Smart Choice 24 is the same design half a cent higher, and Base Saver Plus 24 is the same design with a $75 credit at 10.7¢. If you take any of them, take the 12-month version.

At 500 kWh, Simple Value 12 at 11.3¢ is the outlier worth knowing about: a $50 credit that triggers at 500 kWh or more, aimed at apartments. It reverses as usage climbs — 15.8¢ at 1,000 and 18.1¢ at 2,000 — so it is a small-home plan and nothing else. At 2,000 kWh, Mega Saver 24’s $150 credit produces 10.0¢, the best big-home rate here, with the 36-month version at 10.6¢; both are 18¢-plus at 500 kWh.

If your usage swings with the seasons, Weekends Free 12 at 14.4¢ / 13.9¢ / 13.6¢ is the plan to look at, and it is the only one on the card that behaves. It stays within eight tenths of a cent across the entire range, it beats Simple Choice 12 at every level before you shift a single load into the free window, and it has no threshold to miss. Free Nights and Days Free are priced so the free hours are already inside a 14¢–16¢ average, the same pattern Direct Energy and Cirro use; they pay off only if you can genuinely move a third or more of your load. Avoid the Stability Plan unless you use close to 1,500 kWh every month — its $82 flat charge for a 1,500 kWh block works out to 23.8¢ at 500 kWh — and note that Simple Value’s 24- and 36-month versions are ordinary fixed rates, not the low-usage credit plan the 12-month version is.

Just Energy’s PUCT complaint record (March–August 2026)

The Public Utility Commission of Texas publishes informal complaint counts by provider and category. Here is Just Energy’s six-month record next to the other large REPs, pulled from the PUCT’s Customer Complaint Statistics page on September 10, 2026. These are raw counts, not rates: the PUCT does not publish customer totals alongside them, so a provider with more customers will naturally log more complaints.

Source: PUCT Customer Complaint Statistics, Retail Electric Providers, 3/1/2026–8/31/2026 (summary generated 9/10/2026). Cramming and “all other” columns omitted (Just Energy: 0 and 1). Slamming share is slamming complaints divided by that provider’s total, calculated by myutilitysearch.com. Counts are not normalized by customer count.

Slamming is the PUCT’s term for switching a customer’s provider without clear authorization, and it is the category that most often points at a sales problem rather than a service one. Just Energy’s 24 slamming complaints are 17% of its total, the highest share of the eight large brands and well above the 11% market average — and Reliant, a far bigger company, logged only one more in absolute terms. The contrast inside the family is the striking part: Amigo Energy, which shares Just Energy’s parent, platform and much of its rate card, logged two. Same supply, same billing system, very different sales record. If you enroll with Just Energy, do it yourself on the website rather than through a door-to-door or phone solicitation, and keep the confirmation.

Is Just Energy a good electricity provider?

It can be the cheapest option in Houston for a household that knows its usage and enrolls online. Just Energy’s strengths are the widest plan card in the market at 25 options, terms from 12 to 60 months, the joint-lowest 1,000 kWh price we found this month (Smart Choice 12 at 7.0¢), a rare low-usage credit plan for apartments, a genuinely flat weekend plan, and a solar buyback option. Its weaknesses are real: five bill-credit plans whose price doubles or triples when you miss the threshold, time-of-use plans already priced for the free hours, a Stability Plan that punishes low usage, the highest slamming complaint share of any large Texas brand, and a parent that went through bankruptcy protection after the 2021 storm and is no longer publicly reporting. And if you are comparing Just Energy against Amigo Energy to feel confident about the price, that comparison is mostly circular — eleven of the plans are the same product. Compare it against an NRG brand or Gexa instead.

How to sign up for Just Energy (and what to check first)

1. Pull 12 months of usage from Smart Meter Texas or your old bills. Every headline price on this card is a threshold price. You need your lowest month, not your average, before you can pick.
2. Load all 25 plans before you compare. The enrollment page shows nine by default and hides the rest behind a “Load More” button; Base Saver Plus, Basics, the Stability Plan and the 36- and 60-month terms are in the hidden set.
3. Toggle the usage filter to 500, 1,000 and 2,000. The page defaults to 2,000 kWh, which makes Mega Saver look like the winner for every household.
4. Enroll online yourself. Given the slamming complaint share, avoid switching through a door-to-door or inbound-call solicitation, and save the enrollment confirmation and Terms of Service.
5. Read the EFL for the credit threshold, the base charge and the ETF. Smart Choice and Mega Saver advertise no base charge; the Stability Plan bills delivery charges separately; Renters Choice is advertised as cancel-anytime with no fee, and Texas law waives the fee on any plan if you move somewhere Just Energy can’t serve.
6. Skip the $9.99 JustGreen add-on unless you want it. On a 1,000 kWh home it adds about a cent per kWh; Just Energy’s plans are not renewable by default.

Just Energy for business: Just Energy Commercial

Just Energy routes business accounts to its affiliate Just Energy Commercial (PUCT #10092, the same certificate as Amigo Commercial) and describes its offer as “custom business electricity rates and plans” for Texas, with contract terms of 12, 24, 36, 48 or 60 months cited in its guidance. As of September 28, 2026 the commercial page publishes no rates and its online enrollment showed “no plans available in your area at this time” during maintenance; quotes come from a form that asks for company name and monthly bill (under $1,000 to over $25,000) or by phone at 800-932-2176, after which a commercial representative calls. Hold the quote against Champion’s public 9.7¢ energy charge on Oncor, and confirm the base charge, pass-through and exit fee in writing before signing a term longer than 24 months.

Source: the company’s own business pages (and NRG Business’s Texas small-commercial terms of service, REP #10011, for the NRG brands; Pulse Power small-commercial agreement summary Ver 090119TX), read September 28, 2026. Commercial electricity is priced per meter; treat these as the published starting points.

What a commercial contract adds over the residential plan on this page: a price built from your meter’s 12-month usage and load factor rather than a published rate card, term choices from 12 to 36 months or longer, a base charge and pass-through structure that differ from the residential EFL, and exit terms that scale with the months remaining. Compare every business quote as an all-in price at your real usage — the method is in our cheapest business electricity guide and the supplier field is compared in business electricity providers.

Business shopper? Compare business electricity providers, read how the cheapest business contracts are built, or talk to a commercial specialist.

Frequently asked questions about Just Energy

Sources

• Just Energy — Texas residential plans, ZIP 77002 (viewed September 10, 2026 at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh with all 25 plans loaded)
• Just Energy — delisting and closing of sale transaction to DIP lenders (December 9, 2022; closing December 16, 2022)
• Private Capital Journal — PIMCO acquires Just Energy Group out of CCAA
• Public Utility Commission of Texas — Customer Complaint Statistics (3/1/2026–8/31/2026)

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