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May 12, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for adoption containing proposed revisions to Subst. R. 25.272, relating to the Code of Conduct for electric utilities and their affiliates.
January 13, 2013
The use of the CenterPoint Energy name and service mark by a regulated utility and competitive affiliate engaged in electric brokering is "distinguishable" from the use of the AEP brand and service mark by regulated utilities and a retail electric provider, Staff of the Public Utility Commission of…
September 26, 2012
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has issued a written order denying an amendment to the retail electric provider certificate of AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership (d/b/a AEP Retail Energy), which AEP Retail Energy had sought to allow AEP Retail Energy to serve…
May 18, 2012
The names "AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Limited Partnership" [sic] and "AEP Retail Energy" are not deceptive or misleading, and are not in violation of Commission Rules, a Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings ALJ said in a proposal for decision regarding AEP Texas Commercial &…
February 28, 2012
The application of AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership for an amendment to its Texas REP certificate, to allow it to serve customers under 1 MW using the trade name AEP Retail Energy, should be denied, Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas said in a post-hearing…
December 20, 2011
A survey conducted for AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership, d/b/a AEP Retail Energy, shows that nearly 150,000 customers would expect better service from AEP Retail Energy, which Direct Energy argued shows an unfair competitive advantage provided to the REP through its use…
December 13, 2011
Survey respondents' ability to correctly identify AEP Retail Energy's role as a REP in the ERCOT market reflects the "descriptive" nature of its name, and does not indicate that the name provides AEP Retail Energy with a competitive advantage, AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited…
December 1, 2011
The Direct Energy REPs have submitted Requests for Information to AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership, concerning AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership's recent direct testimony supporting AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership's…
November 11, 2011
In direct testimony concerning its REP certificate amendment, AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership has offered to use a disclaimer in advertisements, on its website, and on business cards concerning its relationship to the AEP Texas distribution companies, but this would not…
November 1, 2011
Hearing Date Pushed Back for Consideration of Use of AEP Trade Name by Mass Market REP
October 3, 2011
Young Energy Submits Notice of Intent to Offer AMS-Based Prepay Service
September 12, 2011
A draft PUCT preliminary order would conclude that neither PURA Sec 39.157(d)(5) nor P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.272 precludes the Commission from determining pursuant to P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.107(e)(1)(B) whether a retail electric provider's business name is deceptive, misleading, vague, or otherwise…
August 31, 2011
PURA Sec. 39.157(d)(5)(B) and PUC Subst. R. 25.272(h), "do not preclude the Commission from determining, pursuant to PUCT Subst. R. 25.272(e)(1)(B), whether a REP's use of the same corporate name, trademark, brand or logo as that of its affiliate utility is deceptive, misleading, vague, or otherwise…
August 24, 2011
The PUCT has sought briefing on several threshold legal issues concerning the application of AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership to serve customers under 1 MW as a retail electric provider (39509).
August 8, 2011
AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership asked the PUCT that, prior to referring its application for a REP certificate amendment to the State Office of Administrative Hearings, an ALJ rule on a threshold legal question regarding the ability of competitive affiliates to use a…
August 1, 2011
PUCT Staff have recommended that the application for a REP certificate amendment of AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership be set for hearing (39509).
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…
July 20, 2011
Texas retail electric provider AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership said that use the trade names AEP Retail Energy and AEP Plus as it expands to mass marketing is not contrary to PUCT rules or PURA, while several REPs argued that the names would confuse customers given AEP's…
