Texas attorney general Ken Paxton announced on Monday that it had sued an energy company for deceptive advertising after customers complained about exorbitant bills amid the state’s deep freeze. Paxton’s office said the lawsuit seeks to prevent Griddy, LLC from further misrepresenting its energy prices and to recuperate costs for its customers who were billed hundreds of dollars, and in some cases thousands, for a few days of electricity during Texas’s winter storm. “Griddy misled Texans and signed them up for services which, in a time of crisis, resulted in individual Texans each losing thousands of dollars. As Texans struggled to survive this winter storm, Griddy made the suffering even worse as it debited outrageous amounts each day,” Paxton said in a statement. Griddy is a California-based based retail electric service provider that promotes itself as a more affordable alternative to traditional energy providers as it offers “wholesale” prices. It charges its …