July 25, 2013
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75% of TXU Customer Service Interactions Occurring Through Self-Service, Electronic Channels
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July 25, 2013
NRG Counting Down to Launch of NRG Residential Solutions; NFL-branded Products and Smart Energy Products Coming?
NRG Energy has created a website counting down in real time the forthcoming launch of NRG Residential Solutions.
July 24, 2013
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First in EnergyChoiceMatters.com: PPL EnergyPlus Expands Residential Service to Penelec
July 24, 2013
Analysis Shows Latest Operating Reserves Demand Curve Proposals Would Enhance ERCOT Resource Adequacy
Additional options for setting parameters of an operating reserves demand curve in ERCOT would enhance resource adequacy, even at a lower minimum contingency level, an analysis conducted by The Brattle Group showed.
July 23, 2013
Champion Energy Services Announces Next Market Entry
Champion Energy Services announced that it would enter its next retail energy market in the near future.
July 22, 2013
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Broker EMEX Expands Reverse Auction Tool to Natural Gas
July 22, 2013
PUCT's Anderson Offers Final Proposals for Operating Reserves Demand Curve
Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson has offered two proposed alternatives for implementing an Operating Reserves Demand Curve in ERCOT.
July 19, 2013
Spark Energy Revenues Reported in Affiliate's SEC Registration Statement
The 2012 revenues of privately held retail supplier Spark Energy have been disclosed in a registration statement filed with the SEC by affiliate Marlin Midstream Partners, LP
July 19, 2013
Texas, With Energy-Only Market, Again Only State With Retail Choice in CNBC Top 10 States for Business (Capacity Market States Fare Poorly)
Texas, with its energy-only market, is again the only state with retail electric choice rated as attractive to businesses, this time in CNBC's 2013 update to America's Top States for Business, while capacity market states are ranked as among the most undesirable states for business.
July 19, 2013
License Briefs
New Start-up REP Receives Texas Certificate
July 18, 2013
TXU Energy, Cross Country Home Services Announce Partnership to Deliver Home Warranty Services in Texas
TXU Energy announced that it has teamed up with Cross Country Home Services (CCHS) to provide a range of home warranty services for new and existing TXU Energy customers.
July 17, 2013
ERCOT Board Defers Decision on Modifying Reserve Margin Target
The ERCOT board of directors deferred until September a decision to increase the target reserve margin to 16.1% from the current 13.75%.
July 16, 2013
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New Online Shopping Portal Zonesty Launches Texas Service
July 16, 2013
License Briefs
Tiger Natural Gas Seeks to Serve Residential Customers in New State
July 16, 2013
Texas Senate Chair Warns Inflated Reserve Margin Target Skews Debate in Favor of Capacity Market
The Chair of the Texas Senate's Committee on Natural Resources has written a letter to ERCOT board members expressing "serious concern" on a recommendation from the Technical Advisory Committee to increase the ERCOT target reserve margin from 13.75% to 16.1%.
July 15, 2013
The Case for a Texas Capacity Market
Consider the following excerpts from an op-ed in favor of a Texas capacity market:
July 12, 2013
Texas Staff File to Set SBF Fee Charged to REPs at $0, Set New LIDA Discount
Consistent with recent legislation, Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft order to set the nonbypassable system benefit fund fee (charged to REPs) at 0¢/MWh for the period beginning September 1, 2013 and ending September 1, 2016.
July 12, 2013
Direct Energy to Acquire Bounce Energy
Centrica plc’s North American subsidiary, Direct Energy, has agreed to acquire the privately-owned Texas-based electricity retailer Bounce Energy (“Bounce”) for $46 million (£30 million) in cash plus additional working capital.
July 12, 2013
Capacity Markets: Encouraging Gold-Plating of the Electric System
Centralized capacity markets -- specifically those with a downward sloping demand curve -- are reintroducing into the electric industry one of the main catalysts of deregulation -- the gold-plating of the electric system.
July 11, 2013
License Briefs
American Power Partners Seeks License in New State
July 10, 2013
Texas ALJs: Entergy/ITC Transaction, "Circumventing Some Of The Purposes Behind The Transfer To Competition"
Two Texas ALJs would deny the proposed transfer of Entergy Texas, Inc. to a subsidiary of ITC Holdings Corp. because, among other reasons, the transfer would, "circumvent[] some of the purposes behind the transfer to competition"
July 9, 2013
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NextEra Energy Services to Offer Electricity Services to 400 Illinois School Districts
July 9, 2013
License Briefs
Galt Power Receives Texas REP Certificate
July 8, 2013
Start-Up Pioneer Power Seeks Texas REP Certificate
Pioneer Power, LLC, a start-up, has applied for a Texas REP certificate.
July 8, 2013
Texas Power to Choose Implements New Changes, Including Scoring of REPs
The Texas PowerToChoose.com site has been updated with anticipated changes, including an indicator of the REP's complaint score in the list of REP offers.