January 14, 2019
Reliant Offering Google Home Hub With Free Weekends Plan
Reliant has begun offering a Google Home Hub to residential customers in Texas as part of Reliant's Truly Free Weekends plan
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January 11, 2019
Arizona Chair, Western Commissioners To Join Retail Energy Thought Leaders At National Energy Marketers Association Western Energy Policy Summit
NEM Issues Save The Date For April National Energy Restructuring Conference
The National Energy Marketers Association (NEM) has released an agenda with speakers for its Western Energy Policy Summit to be held January 29 - January 30, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada
January 11, 2019
Texas PUC Staff Propose Rule Codifying How Retail Providers May Obtain Low-Income Customer List, Explicit Process For New REPs To Receive List
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for publication that would amend 16 TAC 25.45 to codify the process by which a retail electric provider requests and agrees to reimburse the Commission for the customer identification service from the low-income list…
January 10, 2019
License Briefs
Eligo Energy Receives Gas Supplier License In New State
January 10, 2019
Group Of Texas Retail Providers Suggest Requiring That Power To Choose Site List Annual Estimated Average Price For REP Plans
TEAM Proposes New Complaint Scoring Mechanism, Mapping Complaints Against Market Mean
In comments to the Public Utility Commission of Texas in a new project reviewing the Power to Choose site, the Texas Energy Association For Marketers recommended that the site list the Annual Estimated Average Price for retail plans listed on the site
January 9, 2019
CenterPoint-TDU Files To Decrease Rider Applicable To Retail Electric Providers
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric has filed at the Public Utility Commission of Texas to reduce the amounts charged to retail electric providers under Rider NDC - Nuclear Decommissioning Charges
January 9, 2019
Morgan Stanley Sub. Seeks Texas Retail Electric Provider Certificate
Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. applied for an Option 2 Texas retail electric provider certificate, to serve specifically identified customers contracting for one megawatt or more of capacity who provide an affidavit agreeing to such service.
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January 7, 2019
EC Infosystems Announced as 2019 Houston Energy Marketing Conference Overall Sponsor
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – January 7, 2019 – EC Infosystems, a leader in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Billing/Customer Information Solutions (CIS) for companies in the deregulated energy industry , has announced that they will be the overall sponsor for the 11th 2019 Energy Marketing Conference in…
January 7, 2019
RESA Seeks Waiver To Allow More Time For Suppliers To Comply With New Retail Market, Customer Protection Rules
The Retail Energy Supply Association petitioned the District of Columbia PSC for a temporary delay in the effective date of the revised Consumer Bill of Rights (CBORs) and associated retail electric and gas market rules, or a "market waiver," of approximately 11 weeks from December 14, 2018, or…
January 7, 2019
Start-up Led By Texas Market Vet Seeks Texas Aggregator License
Products and Services USA, LLC applied for a Texas electric aggregator certificate to pool residential, commercial, and industrial customers and municipalities.
January 7, 2019
Texas Retail Provider Griddy Energy Launches Smart Home Automation To Respond To Price Signals
Texas retail provider Griddy Energy, whose product passes through wholesale prices to retail customers for a monthly membership fee, announced an offering under which customers may connect Griddy technology to smart home devices using the IFTTT platform, which automates members’ devices based on…
January 7, 2019
Broker Announces Creation Of Texas Power Pool
Pool Gathering Public Entities For Renewable Electricity Aggregation
Texas Energy Aggregation announced the formation of the Texas Power Pool, which Texas Energy Aggregation described as, "a new power purchasing option for Texas public entities to utilize aggregated renewable energy."
January 4, 2019
Satori Energy Acquires Book of Contracts
David C. Wiers, President of Satori Energy, announced today that Satori Energy has acquired the assets of Illinois based Equis Partners, LLC.
January 3, 2019
Texas Retail Provider Seeks To Use Name Milestone Energy
Mega Energy, LP, applied for an amendment to its Texas retail electric provider certificate to add the trade name Milestone Energy to the certificate
January 2, 2019
License Briefs
Astral Energy Seeks Retail Supplier License In New State
January 2, 2019
Texas PUC Staff To Hold Workshop On Power To Choose Site, Opens New Project
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas will hold a workshop seeking input from Retail Electric Providers (REPs) and interested parties regarding the Power to Choose website and the methodology of the complaint scorecard.
January 2, 2019
Start-up Texas REP Adds Market Vets As VP Of Operations, Pricing, Controller Roles
Grid Plus Texas Inc. has filed for an amended Texas retail electric provider certificate to reflect changes in technical/managerial qualifications and to add a trade name
December 31, 2018
Mothballed Units In ERCOT To Retire Permanently
On December 28, 2018, ERCOT received a Notification of Change of Generation Resource Designation (NCGRD) for each of the following Generation Resources:
December 24, 2018
ERCOT Receives a Notification of Suspension of Operations
ERCOT has received a Notification of Suspension of Operations (NSO) for the following Generation Resource: City of Garland – GIBCRK_GIB_CRG1 (Gibbons Creek Generating Station)
December 21, 2018
AEP Texas Intends To Propose System-Wide Distribution Rates Applicable To REPs In Upcoming Rate Case
AEP Texas filed a study examining the difference in costs that would occur under delivery rates that are separate for its Central and North divisions, versus introduction of system-wide rates.
December 21, 2018
Final Brattle Report: Current ERCOT Market Design Will Support "More Than Sufficient" Reserve Margins From An Economic Perspective
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. has posted a final version of the Estimation of the Market Equilibrium and Economically Optimal Reserve Margins for the ERCOT Region report
December 21, 2018
Texas PUC Adopts TNMP Rate Case Order Imposing New Rider On Retail Electric Providers
The Texas PUC has approved without modification a stipulation resolving TNMP's base rate case proceeding.
December 20, 2018
Texas PUC Recommends To Lawmakers That Brokers Be Required To Be Licensed By PUC
Update, 12/20: The PUC approved the scope report without modification to the broker recommendation discussed below.
December 18, 2018
Affiliate Of South Korean Conglomerate Seeks Texas Retail Electric Provider Certificate
Retail Vet Joins Company As Senior Director, Energy Supply
174 Power Global Retail Texas, LLC applied for an Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate
December 17, 2018
AEP Texas Files Higher Amounts For Merger Credits Provided To Retail Electric Providers
AEP Texas has filed updated amounts for Rider Merger Savings Credit, which is to provide a one-month credit to retail electric providers, to be effective with the first billing cycle in September 2019.