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September 23, 2013
ERCOT said in a market notice that it has identified a potential problem with the implementation of NPRR 416, Creation of the RUC Resource Buyback Provision, which is scheduled for release this week.
September 20, 2013
ERCOT Issues Proposed Protocol Language for Operating Reserves Demand Curve
September 20, 2013
"It is difficult to declare the [ISO New England] capacity market a success if a significant number of the resources that have been selected and compensated as capacity resources fail to perform as needed," Robert Ethier, Vice President of Market Development for ISO New England, said in comments at…
September 20, 2013
Proton Energy has denied the alleged violations made against it by Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and alleged that the sought fine represents a misuse of power. See prior story on Staff petition to revoke Proton certificate
September 20, 2013
Adopting a mandated reserve margin in Texas, and the attendant mandatory capacity obligation, would be inconsistent with the vision of Governor Rick Perry's Competitiveness Council and specifically the Competitiveness Council's State Energy Plan.
September 19, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have petitioned the Commission to revoke the retail electric provider certificate of Proton Energy, Inc.
September 18, 2013
Google has agreed to purchase the entire output of the 240 MW Happy Hereford wind farm outside of Amarillo, Texas
September 18, 2013
ERCOT said in a market notice yesterday that it has posted an updated tool to backcast online and offline reserve prices as well as Peaker Net Margin (PNM) under the real-time scarcity pricing concept known as "Interim Solution B+", a form of an operating reserves demand curve.
September 17, 2013
TXU Energy has launched a new referral program which does not limit the amount paid to the referring customer.
September 17, 2013
AEP Ohio Files to Significantly Increase Smart Meter Installations, But Not Full Deployment
September 17, 2013
Reliant said that it has launched a new app for customers.
September 17, 2013
Showing once again its utter indifference to realities of the retail electric market, FERC has assigned unhedgeable, out-of-market costs to load serving entities, such as retail suppliers, deeming that retail suppliers "benefit" from such costs.
September 16, 2013
The northeast RTOs are facing "disastrous" consequences if they do not reform their capacity markets, Entergy Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Leo Denault said during a Barclays conference Friday, further affirming that capacity market designs are not successful markets which assure…
September 16, 2013
One of NRG Energy's retail energy subsidiaries has acquired the book of a Texas retail electric provider.
September 13, 2013
Tradition Energy Names Senior Energy Advisor to Support Expansion
September 13, 2013
Direct Energy, LP would pay an administrative penalty of $28,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve an investigation into several alleged violations of the consumer protection rules, including enrollment of a customer without authorization.
September 13, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has directed ERCOT to develop a Nodal Protocol Revision Request to implement an Operating Reserves Demand Curve (ORDC), following the B+ design, and agreed on four major design elements for the curve.
September 12, 2013
A day after PJM was forced to involuntarily shed firm load due to a lack of available generation supply (click here for story) , a Texas capacity owner has said that the "long-term solution" to the challenges facing the ERCOT grid is, "some form of capacity market."
September 12, 2013
XOOM Energy Washington, D.C., LLC applied for a District of Columbia electric supplier license to serve all customer classes.
September 12, 2013
Start-up Nova Power, LLC applied for a Texas REP certificate.
September 12, 2013
Although the superior policy was already clear for a variety of reasons, the institution of involuntary firm load shed in PJM, due in part to a lack of available generating capacity (click here for story) , provides Texas with the inescapable conclusion that requiring a mandated reserve margin to be…
September 11, 2013
Amerex Energy Services Awarded Contract for Harris County Dept. of Education
September 11, 2013
South Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. would pay $52,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve STEC's alleged failure to adhere to ERCOT protocols related to non-spinning reserve service (NSRS) energy deployment criteria.
September 11, 2013
The Texas Public Policy Foundation released a Q&A on the Texas electricity market, providing an overview of the Texas electricity market and the current debate over, "whether Texas should abandon its world-class competitive market and move to a capacity market that would provide subsidies for…
September 11, 2013
Texas, and its energy-only market, continue to lead independent assessments as the most attractive climate for businesses, despite feigned protestations that the energy-only market and a non-mandated reserve margin make the state unattractive for businesses, as Texas has now been named the top state…
