Docket SB2012

April 5, 2023

Texas Senate Passes SB2012

The Texas Senate passed an amended version of SB 2012, which includes guardrails on any PCM implementation, including certain protections against gentailers, and which no longer includes a REP market share cap

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April 4, 2023

Update: Texas Committee Language For "Capacity" Market Protections Against Gentailers Posted

Would Mandate New Collateral Requirements To Ensure No Uplift From Non-payment By REPs In Any Reliability Program Includes Direction On Cost Allocation Of A/S To LSEs Dispatchable Generation Mandate Not Applied To REPs Set To Pass Senate

The text of a revised committee substitute (committee report) for Texas SB2012 has been posted

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April 3, 2023

Revised Substitute Texas Senate Bill Concerning REP Market Share Reported Favorably; Includes "Protections" Against Gentailers In Any PCM Market

The Texas Senate Committee on Business & Commerce has reported favorably a revised committee substitute for SB 2012

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March 23, 2023

Substitute Texas Senate Bill Removes Proposed 20% Market Share Cap On REPs; Would Add "Protections" Against Gentailers In Any PCM Market

A committee substitute has been filed for Texas SB 2012, which, as originally filed, would have implemented a 20% market share cap on retail electric providers, on a corporate-wide basis

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March 9, 2023

Texas Senate's ERCOT Market Reforms: New Reliability A/S Required To Be Purchased By LSEs; Allocation Of A/S To LSEs, Generators

10 GW Of PUC-Directed, Cost-Based Generation Separate Opportunity For TDUs To Own 5 GW Of Generation PCM Costs To Be Assigned To Generators, Cost Capped End Of RPS; New Dispatchable Credits Program

Below is a summary of bills backed by the Texas Lt. Gov. and a group of both Republican and Democrat senators to address ERCOT market reform and winter storm Uri

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March 9, 2023

Texas Bill Limiting Market Share Of Retail Electric Providers (Corporate-Wide) Included In Suite Of Bills Unveiled by Broad Coalition Of Senators For ERCOT Market Reform

A group of Texas senators have unveiled several bills aimed at ERCOT market reform, and among them is a bill that would cap the market share of a retail electric provider, including those REPs under common ownership

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