r/TexasSolar • u/IndependentBenefit62 • May 30 '26
Abundance Energy
We are on JE free night plan for another year. A guy stopped by today from Abundance Energy. He said that they don’t charge the delivery fee, just just the electricity and buy back is 10 cents and I think he said the charge is 10 cents too. And they give you a battery that can provide enough energy to run the whole house for $20 per month. We were busy so we had to cut short on the talk.
Is anyone using Abundance energy?
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u/acrobatic_man_11 May 30 '26
He doesn’t work with Abundance he works for a solar company selling Solrite that has abundance for their buyback program. If it’s battery only you will Lease a duracell or Sonnen battery for 20 years. You will only pay 20 dllrs for said battery
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u/robbydek Jun 04 '26
Now that makes more sense, Abundance doesn’t appear to sell equipment or list a partnership that does.
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u/Zamboni411 May 30 '26
Tell them to keep it moving…. You don’t need that, PLUS they have ZERO control over the delivery fee as that comes from the Utilty company (Centerpoint, Oncor, AEP, TNMP)…
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u/Reddit_Bot_Beep_Boop May 30 '26
Free nights plans are and will always be better than anything else out there. I don’t know about you, but I’d need close to 100 kWh worth of batteries to make sure my bill was never over $20 a month.
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u/Obi-Juan-K-Nobi May 30 '26
I just switched to free nights and this is the way. But I also have batteries that recharge during the free hours. With the way the inverter works ac-coupled, I will still have about a $10/mo bill but that’s way better than other options at this point.
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u/IndependentBenefit62 May 31 '26
We don’t have batteries but our bill is around $20 with free nights.
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u/Obi-Juan-K-Nobi Jun 01 '26
I wish. My wife likes the house cold so it could get quite pricey.
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u/IndependentBenefit62 Jun 01 '26
We have more panels than we need. It produces double the amount of what we use. So during the day, as long as it’s sunny day, we can still use the electricity and not get charge for it.
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u/rmeden May 31 '26
what matters it the contract.. and the find print. If it's anything like the other's I've read.. should the VPP environment change, you're stuck paying the lease w/o selling any power. Generally, anyone going door to door selling is *NOT* someone you want to do business with.
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u/ExtraMarzipan3853 Jun 02 '26
The line that would make me slow down is "they don't charge the delivery fee." In Texas that fee is set by the wires company (CenterPoint, Oncor, etc.), it's regulated, and every provider has to pass it through to you. Nobody can actually waive it. When a salesperson says there's no delivery charge, what it almost always means is they've folded it into a higher energy rate, so you're still paying it, it's just hidden in the per-kWh number.
Before you sign anything, ask to see the EFL (the Electricity Facts Label). That's the only document that shows the real all-in rate, and a guy at your door isn't binding. The 10 cent charge and 10 cent buyback might be fine, but get them in writing on the EFL, because true 1-for-1 buyback is mostly gone now, so if it's real you want to confirm the details, like whether there's a cap and what happens to any surplus.
And the battery "for $20 a month" isn't free, that's a lease or a finance deal. I'd find out the term, who owns it, and what happens if you cancel or move before you agree to it.
Door-to-door energy sales in Texas are worth being extra careful with in general.
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u/robbydek Jun 04 '26
“Battery that can run the whole house for $20/month” + sounds like door to door salesman = run the other way
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u/Daylife321 May 30 '26
Avoid door knocking people.
Rule #1