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May 23, 2025
Dayton Power and Light d/b/a AES Ohio has withdrawn a petition before the PUC of Ohio which had originally sought approval of Phase 2 of the utility's Smart Grid Plan ("SGP")
May 20, 2025
Strobe Power NY, LLC, a start-up power marketer, is offering customers the opportunity to join its "network" and offering to pay customers for electricity from their solar, batteries, and generators.
April 15, 2025
ERCOT has provided to retail electric providers, via a market notice, instructions for compliance with new reporting requirements for information regarding REPs' responsive device programs
April 4, 2025
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel said in a news release that, "Ratepayers should not be forced to cover the costs of utility proposals to acquire and own energy storage devices located on customer properties because it would impede the developing competitive market for storage and could…
April 2, 2025
During a Texas legislative hearing today, Base Power CEO Zach Dell said that Base has more than 15,000 Texans on its wait list for its product which pairs a home energy storage battery with retail electric supply
March 31, 2025
As part of its 2025 Energy Efficiency Plan and Report, Oncor reported certain metrics related to the pilot program under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed under Oncor's energy efficiency budget for providing a smart thermostat to residential customers
March 19, 2025
ERCOT has scheduled for April 1, 2025, immediately following the Retail Market Subcommittee (RMS) meeting, a workshop to discuss and develop details for the data submission process for REPs to provide information on demand response events under the new responsive device programs offered by REPs
March 14, 2025
Following a call with REPs earlier this week, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric in a market notice provided more details about its new Smart Thermostat Program, under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed under the TDU's energy efficiency budget for providing a smart thermostat to…
March 3, 2025
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric will host a market call on March 10, 2025 at 2:00 P.M. CT concerning CEHE's Smart Thermostat Program under which Texas retail electric providers are reimbursed under the TDU's energy efficiency budget for providing a smart thermostat to residential customers
February 28, 2025
Heritage Power, LLC (HP), a Texas retail electric provider, announced the deployment of a virtual power plant (VPP) through its customer base.
February 25, 2025
Would Require That DERs Are "Fairly Compensated" For Grid Resilience
HB 3346 has been introduced in the Texas House that would require the Texas PUC to make the aggregate distributed energy resource pilot project (Project 53911) a formal program
February 13, 2025
The Texas PUC has moved consideration of Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) to the ERCOT stakeholder process as a means of more quickly advancing ADERs, consistent with a previously reported Staff memo (story here)
February 13, 2025
During today's Texas PUC open meeting, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas said that ERCOT this year will be working on ideas to develop a residential demand response program that would feature financial support from ERCOT
February 6, 2025
Texas PUC Staff have recommended that consideration of Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) be moved to the ERCOT stakeholder process as a means of more quickly advancing ADERs
February 5, 2025
The Texas Reliability Coalition (TRC) announced its launch as, "an educational outreach initiative ... to engage the public and elected officials about ... Utility-Scale Microgrid (USM) technologies".
February 4, 2025
The Maryland PSC has opened Case 9778 to address issues concerning "retail grid services" including, but not limited to, implementation of virtual power plants (VPPs)
February 3, 2025
HB 2303 has been filed in the Texas legislature which would require the Texas PUC to develop an ancillary service allowing retail electric providers to aggregate back-up generation to provide dispatchable generation to ERCOT during a power grid "outage".
January 9, 2025
Smart Meter Texas (SMT) said in a market notice that…
January 9, 2025
In a market notice, Oncor informed…
January 7, 2025
An integrated provider of retail energy and cleaner energy solutions for the commercial and industrial sector is expanding the availability and service of its cogeneration systems (CHP) to…
December 16, 2024
In comments to the Texas PUC, NRG Energy has sought…
December 5, 2024
Texas retail electric providers would not be compelled to offer a residential responsive device program, nor would the PUC mandate specific compensation to customers under any such REP responsive device programs, under a…
November 22, 2024
As one of the means to address resource adequacy concerns, a PSC should consider requiring wholesale default service electricity suppliers to bilaterally procure capacity from smart thermostat customers and distributed energy resources, NRG says
November 20, 2024
TXU Energy announced a partnership with…
November 18, 2024
Allowing Texas customers to use a virtual power plant (VPP) provider, compensated through the ERCOT market, that is not the customer's retail electric provider, would harm reliability and could hinder development of VPPs, REPs say
