Just sent a friend $133.00 to pay the electric bill on his tiny house in Lubbock. The yokel monopoly, Lubbock Power and Light, has the strictest and most draconian payment terms of any public utility I have ever heard of. Payment is due 21 days from the billing date. Service is disconnected 9 days after that. A user can get a 21 day extension if the arrangements are made within a couple of days of the due date. After that it’s lights out.
I saw a story a while back about a layed-off worker in California who was worried because his utilities were 3 months past due. That would not happen in Lubbock because nobody is allowed to get even 1 month behind.
In the meantime, Lubbock ranks 27th from the bottom in average weekly wage ($736.00) among the 300 largest cities in the US.

The Lubbock monopoly profits heavily from “reconnection fees” ($75.00) and a mandatory additional deposit of $130. The latter is not a deposit at all since, by stated policy, it is never returned. Even the similar initial service deposit is never returned, not even to people who move away and end their service voluntarily. It is held in case they ever resume service in Lubbock. They are in fact holding my deposit, even though I had a spotless record for 20 years, then moved away and will not return to that callous grifter infested kleptocracy until they bury me there, in which case even LP&L cannot suppose I will need electric service.