October 17, 2011
Switch holds placed on customers as part of entering into a deferred payment plan with a retail electric provider still apply to less than 1% of residential ESI IDs in ERCOT since the introduction of switch holds in June, according to data through the end of September filed by the TDUs.
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October 17, 2011
Imposing Non-Spinning Reserve Service (NSRS) price floors in ERCOT under the "compromise" proposal would have increased average prices by $46.49/MWh in 2011, if the low system offer cap [LCAP] were not applied, the Texas Industrial Energy Consumers said in comments to the PUCT.
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October 11, 2011
An unopposed stipulation reconciling Oncor's advanced metering system surcharge would maintain the currently applicable monthly surcharges allocated to retail electric providers (39552).
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October 5, 2011
Entrust Energy yesterday formally announced its expansion to AEP Texas Central, AEP North Texas, and Texas-New Mexico Power.
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September 28, 2011
TriEagle Energy will launch prepaid electric service in ERCOT under the Power House Energy brand within the next week.
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September 20, 2011
Switch holds placed on customers as part of entering into a deferred payment plan with a retail electric provider still apply to less than 1% of residential ESI IDs in ERCOT since the introduction of switch holds in June, according to data through the end of August filed by the TDUs.
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September 15, 2011
Entrust Energy plans to have 10,000 customers in the ERCOT market by the end of the year, and has set a five-year goal of enrolling 400,000 customers, Entrust Energy President and CEO Tom Gilpin told Matters yesterday.
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September 13, 2011
Entrust Energy yesterday publicized refreshed pricing for residential service at CenterPoint, and told Matters that it would soon expand to additional areas in ERCOT.
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September 8, 2011
TXU Energy has launched three new "LUV 2 Fly" plans under an exclusive partnership with Southwest Airlines through which TXU customers can earn up to 30,000 Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Points to use towards free flights.
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September 7, 2011
EnergyUSA-TPC Seeks Renewal of Ohio Supplier License
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August 22, 2011
PUCT Directs Enforcement Staff to Investigate Variable Rate Disclosures
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August 16, 2011
Switch holds placed on customers as part of entering into a deferred payment plan with a retail electric provider apply to less than 0.5% of residential ESI IDs in ERCOT since the introduction of switch holds in June, according to data filed by the TDUs.
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August 8, 2011
Reliant Energy has launched a product, for residential customers with provisioned advanced meters, offering customers cash-back for usage during nights and weekends.
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July 26, 2011
AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership called arguments that its certificated name and trade names AEP Retail Energy and AEP Plus would be confusing to mass market customers in Texas speculative, but its excerpt in a reply brief of language on the AEP Texas website appears to…
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July 19, 2011
Texas Power has announced a new 12-month fixed rate of 8.2 cents per kWh for service in the Oncor area (based on 1,000 kWh usage), which Texas Power said is its lowest fixed-term rate to date. The rate ties for the lowest 12-month fixed rate on Power to Choose (with Potentia Energy and Pennywise…
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July 12, 2011
Oncor: No Change Required in AMS Surcharge
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July 12, 2011
TXU Energy and SolarCity are expanding their partnership by establishing a $5 million incentive fund to encourage and accelerate solar energy adoption in Texas.
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July 5, 2011
Retail electric providers in Texas have opposed the proposal from transmission and distribution utilities to include a separate Priority Move-In charge for premises with provisioned advanced meters with remote connect/disconnect capability (38674).
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June 28, 2011
ERCOT yesterday entered Energy Emergency Alert Level 1 for about an hour and a half, which prompted Oncor (independently of the ERCOT process) to initiate its first unscheduled curtailment order under the voluntary Commercial Load Management program.
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June 22, 2011
The PUCT should retain the three day right of rescission for all types of contracting for electric service, consumer advocates and the Texas Energy Association for Marketers said in separately filed comments (38674).
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June 21, 2011
Direct Energy has commenced offering prepaid electric service in the AEP Texas Central area, and has launched a new marketing effort for its existing prepaid products at Oncor and CenterPoint.
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June 21, 2011
Reliant Energy has launched a solar leasing program and two excess distributed generation buyback products for renewable power.
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June 21, 2011
Texas Competitive Power Advocates is seeking to impose a "backstop" capacity obligation on ERCOT loads.
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June 17, 2011
Andrea Barbeau Joins AEG Affiliated Energy Group
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June 15, 2011
TXU is offering an indexed product as part of its FlexPower prepaid plan first reported by Matters yesterday (6/14) .
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