Docket 47186

November 13, 2018

AEP Texas, Co-Op Reach Settlement To Transfer Disputed Tract To AEP, Allowing Current Customers To Maintain Service From Retail Electric Providers

AEP Texas and Rio Grande Electric Cooperative (RGEC) have reached a settlement under which existing customers of AEP Texas in the Uvalde Estate Subdivision, who are served by retail electric providers, may continue to be served by AEP Texas and such REPs

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September 12, 2018

Texas Co-op Says It Does Not Want To Transfer Existing Customers Away From AEP Texas (And Their REPs) For Area, Currently Served By AEP Texas, That PUCT Has Ruled Only Co-Op Is Currently Authorized To Serve

Rio Grande Electric Cooperative (RGEC), Inc. has stated in response to an RFI that it does not wish to transfer existing customers in the Uvalde Estate Subdivision who are currently served by AEP Texas, and the customers' selected REP, but for which the Texas PUC has ruled that AEP Texas does not…

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July 26, 2018

Chair Walker: Texas PUC Must Consider Customers' Best Interests, Their Retail Choice, In Weighing Territory Dispute Between AEP Texas, NOIE Co-op

ALJ Had Found AEP Texas Does Not Have Right To Serve Some Current Customers (Who Are With REPs) Walker: Case Should Return To PUCT For Second Phase, Determination Of Treatment Of Customers

Update, 10:45 am: The Texas PUC this morning approved the process set forth in Chair Walker's memo, including adopting the interim PFD and its findings regarding the boundaries of the current CCN and that AEP Texas is not authorized to serve some of the customers under the current boundary. The case…

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June 19, 2018

Texas Judge Would Find That AEP Texas Lacks Authority To Serve Some Customers In Service Area Disputed By Co-op; Such Customers Currently Served By REPs

Adoption Of Proposal Would Require Second Phase To Determine How To Transition Customers To Co-op Service, Cease Taking Service From REP

A Texas ALJ has issued a proposal for decision which would determine that AEP Texas lacks authority to serve certain customers located in the Uvalde Estate Subdivision, a residential subdivision in Uvalde County, Texas, which is the subject of a service area dispute filed by Rio Grande Electric…

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March 16, 2018

Texas Staff: Customers In Service Area Dispute Between AEP Texas, Co-op Are Within AEP Texas' Service Area

In a statement of position concerning preliminary issues, Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas said that customers in the Uvalde Estate Subdivision (outside of Uvalde, TX) are within AEP Texas's certificated service area.

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June 20, 2017

Texas PUC Staff Recommend Service Area Dispute Which Could Deprive 100 Customers of Retail Choice Be Set For Hearing

Staff Note Co-op Fails to Allege Immediate Danger

Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have recommended that a service area dispute between Rio Grande Electric Cooperative (RGEC) and AEP Texas be referred to the State Office of Administrative Hearings

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June 13, 2017

AEP Texas: Granting NOIE Co-op's Cease And Desist Request Would Harm Customers, Affect Customers' Choice of Retail Electric Provider

AEP Texas Says It Has Grandfathered Rights To Serve Disputed Territory

Granting a request from Rio Grande Electric Cooperative (RGEC) for an order from the Public Utility Commission of Texas requiring AEP Texas to cease serving over 100 residences in the Uvalde Estate Subdivision (outside of Uvalde, TX) would harm customers who are currently taking delivery services…

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