Please enter zip code
Notes
- This is a prototype based on the old Texas PUC Power to Choose web site.
- Zip code and rate info is scraped from the PUC site once daily (Perl script). [disabled now that PUC site is improved]
- This would work much better of course with access to the actual rate database.
- Web stuff was written using PHP, MySql, and CSS.
- Zip code lookup is database-driven, but rate tables are static for speed/efficiency.
- Making end users do manual zip code lookups is ridiculous. [02/08: it's fixed!]
- This web site is not affiliated with the Texas PUC, but the functionality of the current site was so lacking that I felt compelled to write this as a programming exercise.
- TO DO
- improve navigation
- display last updated date/time
- pretty up stylesheet
- note SESCO exceptions for Oncor?
- poll vendor sites directly instead of scraping PUC?