"David Hall" wrote in message
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I am sure that you could if you were willing to build out the
distribution network for the community and keep it maintained and do
all the individual billing and collections,

The electrical company is responsable for maintaining lines. The company
that maintains the lines is not the one that I buy electricity from. I live
in Houston and buy my electricity from a company in Dallas.

with the inevitable bad debt but you have to keep supplying them anyhow, and
absorb the costs
during low usage periods when the overhead charge you apply doesn't
actually cover the overhead required to maintain sufficient capacity
to serve everyone's needs during the peak usage periods.....

If the HOA took care of the billing it could cut the power off to the family
that does not pay the bill. I suspect that the home owners in my small
subdivision could save at least $225,000.00 per year. 3 years ago a family
was ecvicted from their home and their home repaired and sold. They refused
to pay the HOA anual bill of $250.00. I really do not think there would be
problem with non payment.

(any idea
what the cost is when a single neighborhhood step-down transformer
blows and needs replaced on an emergency basis while it is 10 below
outside)

That will never happen in Houston. Transformers will blow but still the
electric company will be responsible for the repair.