February 18, 2021
CEO Of Another Retail Provider Seeks Relief From PUC, Recounts Strain From Wholesale Pricing, Generator Unavailability
A principal of a retail electric provider told EnergyChoiceMatters.com that chatter in the market is that there are 22 possible defaults of load serving entities in ERCOT due to recent prolonged scarcity pricing. The principal requested not to be named due to the sensitive nature of the information
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February 18, 2021
The Texas PUC on the evening of Feb. 17 ordered, "all TDUs in the ERCOT region to rotate customers that are properly subject to curtailment under EEA3 in a manner that no such customer is subjected to an outage of more than 12 hours."
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February 17, 2021
Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered a prohibition on the export of natural gas from Texas by producers through Feb. 21
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February 17, 2021
Vistra issued a news release today stating that of the company's nearly 19,000 megawatts of Texas capacity, only approximately 1,000 megawatts are currently not able to produce electricity; however, a larger, undisclosed amount of capacity -- while "able" to produce electricity -- was not currently…
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February 17, 2021
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared the "reform" of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) an emergency item this legislative session.
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February 16, 2021
The Texas PUC issued a further order on ERCOT pricing, and rescinded its prior directive that past ERCOT prices during the weather event be corrected to reflect scarcity pricing
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February 16, 2021
Pulse Power, a retail electricity provider in Texas, announced on the morning of Feb. 15 that it is giving its customers an incentive to conserve electricity to help the marketplace this week.
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February 16, 2021
Other REPs Delaying Enrollment Start Dates
Griddy, which charges a real-time wholesale pass-through price, on Feb. 13 began encouraging its Texas customers to switch to another retail electric provider due to price spikes which had already been seen at such time, and which have continued in the next few days
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February 16, 2021
Just Energy Group Inc. announced today that it will miss its filing deadline of February 16, 2021 to file its unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2020 (the 'Interim Financial Statements'), its management discussion and…
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February 15, 2021
ERCOT issued a market notice (M-C021521-01) the evening of Feb. 15 explaining how ERCOT intends to implement certain directives under the PUC's order reported in our earlier story below
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February 15, 2021
(Earlier:) ERCOT Institutes Rotating Outages Due To 30,000 MW Of Offline Generation ERCOT Notes "Elevated Risk For Default" In Market In Coming Days
Due to the sheer amount of offline generation, outages are not rotating as would be done normally, due to the prioritization of emergency and other critical need loads
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February 11, 2021
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said today that it is expecting record electric use as a result of the extreme cold temperatures that have already reached much of the ERCOT region.
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February 9, 2021
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Board of Directors today elected Sally A. Talberg to serve as their new Board Chair and Peter Cramton to serve as Vice-Chair.
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February 9, 2021
Start-up Texas retail electric provider Rhythm announced that it is pledging to pay up to $1 million in early-termination-fee reimbursements to consumers who break up with their current electricity provider and switch to Rhythm's 100 percent renewable service.
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February 5, 2021
Total announced that it is acquiring a development pipeline of 2.2 GW of solar projects, and 600 MW of battery storage assets, all located in Texas, from SunChase Power, and MAP RE/ES, a private energy investment firm.
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February 5, 2021
Discloses Texas Customer Count
Griddy Energy LLC, known for its real-time wholesale pricing retail electricity product in Texas, has applied for a Pennsylvania electric supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas
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February 3, 2021
Griddy Energy LLC, known for its real-time wholesale pricing retail electricity product in Texas, has applied for membership in PJM in the Other Supplier category
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February 2, 2021
The California Independent System Operator (ISO) said that it has signed an implementation agreement with El Paso Electric (EPE) to join the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) in 2023
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February 2, 2021
Start-up Rhythm has begun offering residential electric service in Texas
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February 1, 2021
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas has issued a series of interrogatories to Avangrid, Inc., as part of the Commission's review of the application of Texas-New Mexico Power for approval of the merger of its parent, PNM Resources, and Avangrid. Inc.
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January 29, 2021
The Texas PUC granted Olin Corporation an option 2 retail electric provider (REP) certificate.
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January 28, 2021
ERCOT received a Notification of Suspension of Operations (NSO) for the following Generation Resource: Petra Nova Power I LLC - PNPI_GT2
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January 28, 2021
Bunge, an agribusiness and food company, announced a 10-year agreement with Direct Energy Renewable Services to use renewable energy at its Fort Worth, Texas oils packaging facility.
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January 28, 2021
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC (CEHE) has filed at the Texas PUC an amendment to its plan to refund to retail electric providers Rider TC2 and Rider TC3 transition charge collection balances
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January 27, 2021
A bill (S.B. No. 398) has been introduced in Texas that would establish required disclosures, to residential and small commercial customers, by sellors or lessors of distributed renewable generation resources, including PPAs from such facilities
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