John Spencer

John Spencer founded Volt Butler after watching people in deregulated states overpay for electricity for one simple reason: the sites that were supposed to help them compare were built to sell, not to inform.

John isn’t a former utility executive or an energy trader. His background is digital marketing — 17 years of it, with a B.A. in English and a career spent understanding how people make decisions online and how often that process is engineered against them. That’s exactly what he saw in the electricity-comparison space: fake urgency, cherry-picked “cheapest” rates, fabricated reviews, and fine print designed to be missed.

Volt Butler is the counter to that. Every rate is sourced from public data — EIA, Power to Choose, state regulators — and every recommendation is built on the actual economics of a plan, not on whichever provider pays the most. When a “no-deposit” plan quietly costs about $590 a year more, the page says so. When a well-known provider isn’t the cheapest, the page says that too.

The goal is simple: give people in deregulated markets the power to choose their own provider based on the facts, not the hype. John is based in Dallas, Texas.