April 19, 2013
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NY Acts on Energy Highway Items, Meant to Reduce Congestion
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April 18, 2013
Direct Energy Signs Dallas Market Center
Direct Energy announced that it has signed a three-year electricity supply agreement with Dallas Market Center. The deal, which starts in May 2013, was managed through Acclaim Energy Advisors.
April 17, 2013
Texas Retail Provider Offering Customers $10 Gift Card to Comparison Shop
A Texas retail electric provider is providing customers a $10 gift card for comparison shopping its rates
April 16, 2013
Texas Retail Provider Officially Announces $49 Deposit Plans
ENCOA, which recently launched residential electric service in Texas, has officially announced the offering of plans to credit-challenged customers requiring a deposit of only $49.
April 16, 2013
REPs May Begin Submitting Electronic Transactions for New Choice Areas of Texas in Feb. 2014
Texas retail electric providers may begin submitting electronic transactions for new customers in the Sharyland Utilities, L.P. Brady, Celeste, Colorado City, and Stanton divisions, which are transitioning to retail choice, in February 2014, Sharyland said in an update to the Public Utility…
April 16, 2013
TXU Parent Pitches Prepackaged Bankruptcy Filing to Creditors
Energy Future Holdings Corp. confirmed Monday in an 8-K that it has been in discussions with creditors concerning a consensual restructuring of subsidiary Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Company LLC's (TCEH) $32 billion of debt, including a prepackaged plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of…
April 15, 2013
License Briefs
Stand Energy Receives Electric Supplier License
April 12, 2013
Maryland Denies Electric Supplier License Application
The Maryland PSC has denied, without prejudice, the electric supplier license application of Superb Power and Light.
April 12, 2013
Reliant Marketing Rangers, Texans Themed Products
Reliant is marketing several residential electricity plans in ERCOT themed with the state's professional sports teams, including the Houston Texans, Texas Rangers, and Dallas Cowboys.
April 10, 2013
Conclusion from Pat Wood GCPA Keynote: Texas Electric Deregulation Has Failed
Listening to Pat Wood's keynote at the spring Gulf Coast Power Association conference, the inescapable conclusion is that electric restructuring in Texas has failed.
April 10, 2013
Texas Staff to File Strawman on Provider of Last Resort Rules
The Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas are set to release a strawman that would amend P.U.C. Subst. R. 25.43, relating to Provider of Last Resort (POLR).
April 9, 2013
New Retail Provider Offering Residential Service at Texas New-Mexico Power
ENCOA has expanded its residential electric service in Texas to include service at Texas-New Mexico Power.
April 8, 2013
NRG Energy to Acquire Corpus Christi, Texas Cogeneration Plant
NRG Energy, Inc. has entered into an agreement with a consortium of affiliates of Atlantic Power Corporation, John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.), and Rockland Capital, LLC to acquire the Gregory cogeneration plant in Corpus Christi, Texas.
April 4, 2013
Analysis Finds Entergy Texas Benefits of Joining MISO At Risk if Entergy PPAs Terminated
An independent analysis prepared for the Public Utility Commission of Texas indicates that the benefits to Texas customers from Entergy Texas, Inc. (ETI) joining the Midwest ISO are at risk if certain PPAs with other Entergy operating companies are terminated upon MISO membership, as is being sought…
April 4, 2013
Panda Power Funds Finances Third 758-MW Texas Power Plant in Eight Months
Panda Power Funds has completed financing on a 758 megawatt expansion of its natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power plant currently under construction in Temple, Texas.
April 4, 2013
Texas Should be Skeptical of Capacity Market as Demand Response Incubator Given Obstacles Introduced to Negate Generator Competition in Eastern RTOs
As Texas considers resource adequacy, and specifically demand response, it should view skeptically claims, especially from capacity owners, that the fastest and most effective way to develop demand response resources is to introduce a centralized capacity market.
April 2, 2013
Texas Broker Expanding Services, Website to New York Market
Broker Vault Energy Solutions announced that it now offers New York rate comparisons for electric and natural gas service.
April 2, 2013
Shock: Texas REPs Say TDUs Should Handle Some Billing in Texas Market
The one-time fee for any opt-out of advanced metering granted to and exercised by Texas electric customers should be billed by the transmission and distribution utilities, not retail electric providers, a group of REPs said in comments to the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
April 2, 2013
License Briefs
ConEdison Solutions Receives Supplier License in New State
April 2, 2013
Direct Energy Launches Cash Back Product in Texas
Direct Energy has begun offering a Texas residential electric product that provides customers with a 3% cash back reward, in the form of a bill credit.
March 29, 2013
Texas Commissioner Anderson Says Marginal Cost Includes Long-Run Marginal Cost, PUCT Approves Voluntary Mitigation Plans
Yesterday, Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson said that when reviewing appropriate generator offer behavior under the Commission's rules, marginal cost should be interpreted as long-run marginal costs, rather than short-run marginal costs.
March 28, 2013
Texas Chair Nelson Proposes Workshop "This Summer" on Operating Reserve Demand Curve Proposal
Donna Nelson, Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, has proposed that the Commission provide stakeholders with a formal opportunity to comment on the Interim Solution B+ proposal to improve scarcity pricing, and the related ERCOT backcast results, followed by a workshop "this summer."
March 27, 2013
Do Regulators Really Want Innovation from Retail Suppliers?
During yesterday's DNV KEMA retail energy executive forum, regulators from Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania all said that retail suppliers need to offer innovative products and services, and that competing on price alone is not what they want from the retail market.
March 26, 2013
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PPL EnergyPlus Sponsors Trading Wing at University
March 26, 2013
ERCOT Adopts Weather-Sensitive Demand Response Pilot
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Board of Directors at its March meeting approved a pilot for the upcoming summer that will expand its options to reduce electric use during peak summer conditions when demand is high and power supplies are tight.