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March 9, 2021
On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, ERCOT revoked all rights of POWER OF TEXAS HOLDINGS INC to conduct activity under the ERCOT Protocols due to its failure to designate a new Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE) or qualify as an Emergency QSE pursuant to the ERCOT Protocols.
March 9, 2021
Breakerbox, LLC, Exelon's energy broker/consultant, has filed an amended broker registration at the Texas PUC, with the stated purpose of the amendment listed as, "To add serving residential customers."
March 9, 2021
Texas Bill Would Authorize Utilities In ERCOT To Construct Facilities To Purchase Power Outside Of ERCOT
March 9, 2021
ERCOT said in a market notice that the release date for the Final Spring and Preliminary Summer "Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy" (SARA) reports has been changed from March 11 to March 25, 2021.
March 9, 2021
New Retail Electric Provider Listed In Latest ERCOT Short-Pay Notice
Alliance Power Company said that it has paid the invoices
March 9, 2021
Just Energy Receives Chapter 15 Bankruptcy Protection in U.S.; Judge Asserts Exclusive Jurisdiction Over Any Relief Sought By Governmental Entity Seeking To Take Action Against Just Energy Licenses Due To Bankruptcy Petition
March 8, 2021
Texas retail electric provider MidAmerican Energy Services initially informed Texas residential electric customers on fixed rate contracts that, "non-energy costs such as ancillary charges billed by ERCOT and your local utility, are not fixed and are passed through on your bill."
March 8, 2021
Texas PUC Commissioner Shelly Botkin has resigned her role with the Public Utility Commission of Texas, effective immediately.
March 8, 2021
ERCOT said that the following short-paying Invoice Recipients have, to date, paid amounts owed: City of Garland GridPlus Texas Inc. Heritage Power LLC Volt Electricity Provider LP Wolverine Trading LLC
March 8, 2021
Attorneys pursuing a class action claim on behalf of almost 30,000 customers of Griddy announced that they, "have filed a motion to prevent the electricity provider from tampering with any internal documentation or physical evidence stemming from the February winter storm in Texas."
March 8, 2021
Energy Edge Consulting, LLC filed a request at the Texas PUC asking that the PUC work with the appropriate state entities and implement a cap on the amount of state sales tax, gross receipts tax ("GRT"), and the Public Utility Commission Assessment fee ("PUCA") that can be assessed to customers who…
March 8, 2021
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. which the AG's office said is, "a natural gas exchange that saw massive price increases during the February winter storm that swept through Texas."
March 8, 2021
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on March 8 called on the Texas PUC and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), "to correct the emergency pricing error that continued after the power shortage had ended and the major threat to the Texas grid had passed."
March 8, 2021
Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives Dade Phelan has announced seven priority bills meant to address electricity industry reform, as part of a "first phase" of addressing the recent winter weather event
March 8, 2021
Discloses Texas Customer Count
Genie Energy today provided additional information on the financial impact to the company of Winter Storm Uri, which impacted the Texas electricity market in mid-February 2021.
March 5, 2021
Vistra Corp. has shared with Texas lawmakers, "ideas that should be considered to address the impacts of the mid-February storm."
March 5, 2021
ERCOT issued a short payment notice related to Settlement Invoices due for payout on March 5, 2021
March 5, 2021
Several Texas bills have been introduced which would allow a customer to provide demand response in ERCOT by contracting directly with a demand response provider, rather than through a retail electric provider
March 5, 2021
A bill has been introduced in the Texas House of Representatives (HB 2828) that would provide one-time cash payments from state funds to customers of retail electric providers and other LSEs
March 5, 2021
A bill, HB 2808, has been introduced in the Texas House of Representatives to ban variable and indexed electric rates for residential customers
March 5, 2021
In response to a petition from the ERCOT TDUs, the Texas PUC issued an order directing TDUs to take certain actions to mitigate demand charges and related issues that customers would otherwise incur due to cold load pickup at the time of service restoration from the winter weather event
March 5, 2021
During today's open meeting, in response to a public comment about the recent weather event and outages, Texas PUC Chairman Arthur C. D'Andrea said that his "current view" is that, "a capacity market would not have helped us here."
March 5, 2021
The Texas PUC today decided not to re-price ERCOT energy market prices from the recent weather event, but did not act on petitions to re-price ancillary services (AS), and will further consider the AS issues
March 5, 2021
During today's open meeting, the Texas PUC said that the current prohibition on REPs issuing disconnect for non-pay (DNP) order will remain in place
March 5, 2021
During today's open meeting, the Texas PUC said that it is working on the issue of extending the settlement invoice dispute timelines at ERCOT, though no formal action was taken at the meeting
