January 24, 2025
El Paso Electric To Join SPP Markets+ (Another Texas IOU Joining Day-Ahead Market, But No Customer Choice)
El Paso Electric informed the Texas PUC that it has decided to proceed with joining Southwest Power Pool's Markets+
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May 26, 2023
Two Key Texas Electric Bills Head To Conference Committee
Both Texas SB7 and HB1500, both which include each house's version of PCM guardrails as well as other electricity policy provisions, are headed to the conference committee process, as neither house concurred with the other chamber's respective amendments to each bill
May 24, 2023
Texas Senate Passes Amended PUC Sunset Bill; Amendment On REP Market Share Cap Not Offered
Passed Bill Includes REP Demand Response Program Provisions; ADER
The Texas Senate today passed HB 1500, the PUC sunset bill, with various amendments addressing a range of electricity policy issues
May 23, 2023
Update: Texas PCM Guardrails Bill Passes House With $1 Billion Cap, Retail Market Protections (Differs From Senate)
The Texas House passed SB 7, a bill, which among other things, places certain guardrails on the performance credit mechanism (PCM)
May 22, 2023
Texas PCM Guardrails Bill Passed To Third Reading In House With $1 Billion Cap, Retail Market Protections
The Texas house today voted to pass to third reading SB 7, a bill, which among other things, places certain guardrails on the performance credit mechanism (PCM)
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
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
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
February 22, 2022
City Council Of Lubbock, Texas Approves Resolution To Implement Retail Electric Choice At Lubbock Power & Light
The City Council of Lubbock, Texas formally adopted a resolution providing that, "retail electric customer choice shall be initiated [for city utility Lubbock Power & Light] on the completion of all conditions provided herein."
February 15, 2022
Lubbock Power & Light Board Formally Votes In Favor Of Implementing Retail Electric Choice; City Council Approval Still Needed
The Lubbock Power & Light Electric Utility Board has voted in favor of fully transitioning Lubbock Power & Light (LP&L) to the competitive electric market in Texas, including implementing retail electric choice.
May 1, 2020
Texas PUC Commissioners Concerned About Retail Electric Providers' Ability To Reject Customers Sought To Be Enrolled Through Concierge Brokers
Will Not Take Action As Part Of Broker Rule At This Time, But Will Further Consider Issue
During today's open meeting, Texas PUC Commissioners expressed concerns about the ability of retail electric providers to refuse to enroll customers who are sought to be placed with a REP through a concierge shopping service or similar situation in which the broker selects a REP for the customer…
October 28, 2016
Texas PUC Chair Nelson: Opening Entergy Texas To Retail Choice, "Worthy Of Consideration"
The idea of transitioning Entergy Texas to retail competition, "is something that is always worthy of consideration," although, "we haven't given a lot of additional thought to that," Donna Nelson, Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, said in response to a question at the National Energy…
October 18, 2016
NEM’s Policy Leadership Roundtable to Showcase Texas Success
NEM: Billions of Dollars Saved by Texas Energy Consumers
"The National Energy Marketers Association (NEM) is pleased to hold its 2016 Policy Leadership Roundtable in Austin, Texas to honor the industry leaders who have set a national standard of excellence in electricity market structure, as well as, competitively offered consumer energy and technology…
February 18, 2014
Yet Again, Major Texas Competition Advocates Left Behind by Grassroots Choice Movement (Generators Too Busy Seeking Subsidies)
As noted in our related story today, a Texas customer has taken up the fight to introduce electric choice to El Paso Electric, which is the latest example of a disturbing trend in Texas of so-called competitive market advocates not proactively seeking to extend choice to the still significant areas…
January 6, 2014
Texas Oil & Gas Producers Criticize Skeletal Nature of Capacity Market Proposals; Point to Prolonged Nodal Implementation As Indicative of Pitfalls
The Texas Oil and Gas Association, "has seen increasing evidence that centralized forward capacity markets do not work as intended and never can," the group said in January 3 comments to the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
November 13, 2013
Texas REP: NRG's Actions Show Energy-Only Market Driving Investment in Capacity; REP Also Says Legislature Did Not Intend for ERCOT to Run "Capacity" Market
Actions undertaken by NRG Energy belie NRG's claims that the energy-only market does not support investment in new capacity and that the energy-only market does not provide economically viable returns, retail provider Source Power & Gas LLC said in comments to the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
September 4, 2012
ERCOT Generators Seeking to Replace Free Market with Command and Control Regulation
Several ERCOT generators have asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas to abandon the state's free market in exchange for a command and control approach to electricity under which the ultimate price of electricity would be driven, in large part, by the outcome of computer models and forecasts…
May 1, 2012
Deafening Silence on Retail Choice Punctuates Entergy Texas MISO Application at PUCT
Entergy Texas, Inc. filed its application at the PUCT (40346) to transfer operational control of its transmission assets to the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc.