November 1, 2013
Sharyland Utilities has posted a list of retail electric providers which will be assigned customers who do not make a choice of REP prior to the introduction of retail choice to the former Cap Rock service areas on or about May 1, 2014.
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November 1, 2013
Connecticut Light and Power Reports Default Service Supplier
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November 1, 2013
GDF Suez's Think Energy Receives Authority to Serve Residential Customers in New State
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November 1, 2013
Energy Future Holdings Corp., the parent of TXU Energy and 4Change Energy, continued to cut the net rate of residential customer churn for the second consecutive quarter, Energy Future Holdings disclosed in a 10-Q filed this morning.
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October 31, 2013
Exelon, the self-proclaimed leader in "competitive" generation, told investors that it will continue to pursue victories -- not in the marketplace but before the courts, regulators and legislators -- to "support our pricing" of its competitive generation assets.
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October 31, 2013
Exelon does not see any turnaround to the currently "tough" retail environment characterized by low margins and aggressive competition, executives said on an earnings call
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October 30, 2013
Here's a quiz for our readers -- identify the state and policy position being argued from the following quote:
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October 29, 2013
North American Power Formally Launches Rewards Program
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October 29, 2013
Texas State Senator Troy Fraser has said that he will hold hearings on the Public Utility Commission of Texas' decision to institute a mandatory reserve margin.
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October 28, 2013
ERCOT has received a Notification of Suspension of Operations (NSO) for the following Generation Resources:
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October 28, 2013
With a majority of the Public Utility Commission of Texas agreeing that the reserve margin in ERCOT should be a mandate, the question immediately implicated is the mechanism to achieve the mandate.
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October 28, 2013
In a triumph of government largesse over customer choice, a majority of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have endorsed a mandated reserve margin for the ERCOT region.
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October 25, 2013
Perry Capital, LLC and CarVal Investors, LLC filed comments with the Public Utility Commission of Texas yesterday stating that a, "properly designed forward capacity market is the most efficient mechanism to both achieve mandatory reserve margin requirements and satisfy [sought] fundamental…
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October 24, 2013
Nuevo Midstream, LLC has selected Priority Power Management, LLC for energy supply management services.
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October 24, 2013
By Paul Ring • ring@energychoicematters.com
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October 24, 2013
By Paul Ring • ring@energychoicematters.com
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October 23, 2013
The Dallas Business Journal has published a great interview with John Werner, President of Source Power & Gas, in which Werner warns that granting compulsory capacity payments to capacity owners in ERCOT would allow those capacity owners who also own REPs to, "use that money to undercut me and…
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October 23, 2013
By Paul Ring • ring@energychoicematters.com
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October 22, 2013
ChamberChoice, OnDemand, FirstEnergy Solutions Expand Friends and Family Program
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October 22, 2013
A formal complaint filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas has taken on additional significance because one of the key allegations from the customer concerns the average pricing methodology quoted in the Electricity Facts Label for a Time of Use product.
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October 21, 2013
GDF SUEZ Energy North America, Inc. has proposed increasing the Value of Lost Load (VOLL) used to create the Operating Reserve Demand Curve (ORDC) in ERCOT due to what GDF called "unintended consequences" of the use of the cumulative distribution function to design the curve.
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October 21, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for publication to amend the REP certification rules to, among other things, provide an additional basis for the suspension or revocation of a REP certificate.
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October 21, 2013
NRG Energy, Inc. has entered into a plan sponsor agreement with Edison Mission Energy (EME), certain of EME's subsidiaries, the unsecured creditors committee, certain of EME's unsecured noteholders, and other parties to acquire substantially all of the assets of EME, including its equity interests…
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October 18, 2013
Bargain Energy, LLC, a start-up retail supplier, has received a Pennsylvania electric supplier license to serve residential customers, and all sizes of commercial customers, at PPL and PECO.
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October 17, 2013
Texas REP Granted Maryland Retail Supplier License
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