Smart Meter Texas - Can we beat electricity providers at their own game?

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So if you are in Texas, you know what I mean. A lot of the providers will give you a $100 usage credit if you use more than >=1000 kWh per month.

Problem is during the winter and spring months when you are most likely using slightly less than >=1000 kWh per month and do not get that $100 credit.

What I’ve done during the years I was on that plan is to download the CenterPoint meter reading dates.
They are posted online for each zone and once you know which zone you are, you can simply watch your electricity usage every month and make sure towards the last 5 days of the period to increase or decrease your electricity to save money.

That being said, does someone know if there’s a way to customize the end date of the monthly reset period for the kWh counter?
Right now it simply resets on the 1st of every month and you can customize that to a day you prefer.
Issue is that, I’d like to customize it for each month, separately.
for example, for my zone it’s:

jan 21
Feb 19
march 20
apr 21
may 20
june 19
jul 21
aug 19
sept 18
oct 17
nov 17
dec 18

That way I can set a card with the current usage and the reset date for this month so I can quickly glance at it without manually calculating and checking every month.

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This won’t help with your automation but it might help with your electrical bill. Check out energyogre.com. They go out and find you the best-priced provider and sign you up and you pay small fee. I used them for the last 4 years I was living in Texas.

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When you create the utility meter, don’t define a cycle. Then you can create an automation which will run based on whatever cycle you define, and execute the utility_meter.reset action documented here.