Amigo Energy Priced 7.0¢ at 1,000 kWh and 20.0¢ at 500 — All 23 Houston Plans, the Bill-Credit Traps, and the Just Energy Backstory (Sept 2026)

Updated on September 28, 2026

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By Christopher Burg · Last updated September 10, 2026

Amigo Energy is the Texas retail electricity provider with a plan tuned to every usage level and a penalty waiting at the other two. On September 10, 2026, Amigo Energy’s Houston rate card ran from 7.0¢ to 23.8¢ per kWh depending on which plan you picked and how much power you used: Power Perks 12 was 7.0¢ at exactly 1,000 kWh and 20.0¢ at 500; Savvy Saver 12 was 11.3¢ at 500 kWh and 18.1¢ at 2,000; Mega Saver 24 was 10.0¢ at 2,000 kWh and 18.2¢ at 500. Below is every one of the 23 plans Amigo Energy displayed for a Houston ZIP at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh, the Just Energy ownership story, and Amigo’s six-month PUCT complaint record.

What is Amigo Energy?

Amigo Energy is a retail electricity provider that sells only in deregulated Texas. Legally it is Fulcrum Retail Energy LLC doing business as Amigo Energy, headquartered in Houston and licensed by the Public Utility Commission of Texas as REP #10081. Fulcrum Power Services built the Amigo and Tara Energy brands starting in 2002 and sold its retail business to Just Energy Group in a deal announced August 25, 2011, when Fulcrum had accumulated roughly 240,000 residential customer equivalents. Since then Amigo Energy has been one of Just Energy’s Texas brands alongside Tara Energy and the commercial-focused Hudson Energy.

Just Energy’s own history matters to Amigo Energy customers because the parent supplies the hedging, billing and call-center infrastructure behind the brand. Just Energy filed for protection under Canada’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and Chapter 15 in the United States in March 2021 after the February winter storm left it with roughly a quarter-billion dollars in ERCOT charges. It emerged on December 16, 2022, through a sale to the lenders under its debtor-in-possession facility; its shares were cancelled and delisted, and press coverage identified the buying group as funds managed by PIMCO. Amigo Energy kept operating throughout, and its rate card today is one of the widest in Houston.

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

These are the 23 plans Amigo Energy displayed for ZIP 77002 (CenterPoint Energy delivery area) on September 10, 2026, after loading the full list. Prices are Amigo Energy’s own displayed average price per kWh at each usage level and include CenterPoint delivery charges; taxes are extra. All plans are fixed-rate, and every one 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.amigoenergy.com, ZIP 77002, viewed September 10, 2026 at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh with all 23 plans loaded. Rates change weekly; read the Electricity Facts Label before enrolling. Amigo Energy’s site notes online rates are for new customers only.

Which Amigo Energy plan is cheapest for your home?

It depends entirely on which column your usage lands in, more than with any other big Texas brand. At exactly 1,000 kWh, Power Perks 12 at 7.0¢ is the lowest price we’ve seen from any provider this month, undercutting even Gexa’s 9.3¢ Simply Low. But the same plan is 20.0¢ at 500 kWh and 13.0¢ at 2,000, because the $125 credit vanishes below the threshold and gets diluted above it. A home that averages 1,000 kWh but dips to 900 in a mild October pays the 20¢-ish rate that month. Bright 75 Plus 12 has the same shape with a smaller credit and lands half a cent higher across the board, so there’s no reason to pick it over Power Perks.

At 500 kWh, Savvy Saver 12 is the unusual one: a $50 credit that triggers at 500 kWh or more makes it 11.3¢ for an apartment or efficient townhouse, but the credit is worth less and less as usage grows, so it’s 15.8¢ at 1,000 and 18.1¢ at 2,000. That’s the mirror image of Power Perks. At 2,000 kWh, Mega Saver 24’s $150 credit produces 10.0¢, the cheapest big-home rate on the card, with the 36-month version at 10.6¢; both are 18¢-plus at 500 kWh, so they only make sense for large houses that never have a light month.

If you don’t know your usage or it swings with the seasons, Weekends Free 12 at 14.4¢ / 13.9¢ / 13.6¢ is the plan to look at. It moves less than a cent across the whole range, it’s cheaper than Simple Choice 12 at every level even before you shift a single load to the weekend, and it has no threshold to miss. Weekends Free 24 is a different animal: 10.1¢ at 1,000 kWh but 18.1¢ at 500, so Amigo Energy has clearly built a credit into the two-year version. The time-of-use plans (Free Nights, Simply Days Free) are priced so that the free hours are already baked into a 14¢–16¢ average, the same pattern Direct Energy uses; they pay off only if you can move a third or more of your load into the free window. Steer clear of PowerBlock 12 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.

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

The Public Utility Commission of Texas publishes informal complaint counts by provider and category. Here is Amigo 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, and Amigo Energy is smaller than most of the brands above it.

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 (Amigo Energy: 0 and 1). Counts are not normalized by customer count.

Amigo Energy’s 47 complaints are the fewest of the eight large brands we track, and its mix is clean: only two slamming complaints in six months, against 24 for Just Energy and 25 for Reliant. Just Energy’s own brand, which shares Amigo’s parent, billing platform and call center, logged nearly three times as many. Together the two Just Energy brands account for 185 of the 2,059 complaints against all Texas REPs, or about 9%, compared with 32% for NRG’s four brands. Whether that reflects Amigo’s smaller size or better service, the PUCT data can’t say; what it does say is that Amigo Energy customers are not complaining about being switched without consent, which is the complaint category that most often signals a sales problem.

Is Amigo Energy a good electricity provider?

For households that know their monthly usage and can commit to a single column, yes, and it can be the cheapest provider in Houston. Amigo Energy’s strengths are the lowest 1,000 kWh price we’ve found this month (Power Perks 12 at 7.0¢), a rare low-usage credit plan (Savvy Saver 12) for apartments, a legitimately flat option (Weekends Free 12), a clean complaint record, and a 23-plan card that covers 12- to 60-month terms. Its weaknesses are the same as its strengths: four bill-credit plans whose price roughly doubles when you miss the threshold, time-of-use plans that are already priced for the free hours, a PowerBlock plan that punishes low usage, and a parent company that went through bankruptcy protection after the 2021 storm. If your usage swings by more than 30% between summer and shoulder months, Direct Energy’s flat ladder or Amigo’s own Weekends Free 12 will beat Power Perks over a year; if your usage sits reliably at 1,000 kWh or 2,000 kWh, Amigo Energy is hard to beat.

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

1. Pull 12 months of usage from Smart Meter Texas or your old bills. Amigo Energy’s card only works if you know your low month, not your average. A 1,000 kWh average with a 700 kWh March pays the 20¢ rate that month on Power Perks.
2. Load all 23 plans before you compare. Amigo’s enrollment page shows nine plans by default and hides the rest behind a “Load More” button; Bright 75 Plus, Basics, Simple Choice 24 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 everyone.
4. Read the EFL for the credit threshold and the base charge. Power Perks and Mega Saver advertise no base charge; Savvy Saver and PowerBlock are built differently, and the early termination fee applies on every fixed term except Apartment Essentials, which Amigo says you can cancel without fees.
5. Skip the $9.99 JustGreen add-on unless you want it. On a 1,000 kWh home it adds a cent per kWh to the effective rate; Amigo Energy’s plans are not renewable by default.

Amigo Energy for business: Amigo Commercial

Amigo Energy handles residential accounts under PUCT certificate #10081 and routes businesses to its affiliate Amigo Commercial (PUCT #10092). As of September 28, 2026 commercial plans are customized per account rather than published — the page says “prices change often, making an average tough to nail down” — and a quote is requested through a form that asks for company details, average monthly bill and service address, or by phone at 800-993-7082, after which a commercial representative calls back. Amigo also publishes its Texas commercial post-term variable rates for customers whose contracts have expired, which is the number to avoid rolling onto. Hold any Amigo Commercial quote against Champion’s public 9.7¢ energy charge on Oncor and ask for the base charge, pass-through and exit fee in writing.

Source: the supplier’s own business pages (and NRG Business’s Texas small-commercial terms of service, REP #10011, for the NRG brands), 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 Amigo Energy

Sources

• Amigo Energy — residential plans, ZIP 77002 (viewed September 10, 2026 at 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kWh; Fulcrum Retail Energy LLC dba Amigo Energy, PUCT #10081)
• Fulcrum Power Services — sale of retail electricity business to Just Energy Group (August 25, 2011)
• 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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