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October 22, 2012
Commissioners of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have agreed on a set of conditions under which they would approve Entergy Texas, Inc.'s application to transfer operational control of its assets to the Midwest ISO.
October 22, 2012
The Brattle Group's recommended design for a Texas mandatory capacity market would allow capacity resources whose fixed costs are subsidized by Texas ratepayers to fully earn scarcity, inframarginal energy market revenues without being subject to any clawback or offset.
October 18, 2012
10K Energy LLC d/b/a Mission Power has filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas a statement of intent to provide retail electric services using a customer prepayment device or system.
October 17, 2012
Website TexasElectricityRatings.com has updated its ranking of ERCOT retail electric providers, and Champion Energy and Bounce Energy have tied with the highest score.
October 17, 2012
AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Limited Partnership d/b/a AEP Retail Energy has sought rehearing of the Public Utility Commission of Texas' decision denying its application to amend its REP certificate to serve customers under 1 MW.
October 15, 2012
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed the Commission's final determination of the retail electric providers (REPs) designated to provide Provider of Last Resort (POLR) service for the 2013-2014 term.
October 12, 2012
"For the benefit of the public, please allow me to remind us all that our energy-only market design has not failed us to date and is not broken," Commissioner Rolando Pablos of the Public Utility Commission of Texas said in a memo regarding resource adequacy in advance of today's open meeting.
October 11, 2012
Entrust Energy, Inc. would pay $30,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve allegations that Entrust Energy was not in full compliance with 3 provisions of the Substantive Rules (40820).
October 10, 2012
Independence Energy Group LLC has begun offering electric service in Ohio.
October 9, 2012
The Energy Professionals Association (TEPA) announced that its upcoming annual conference will focus on the last ten years of deregulation in the Texas energy market, as well as strategies to take the organization to a national platform.
October 8, 2012
The Texas Coalition for Affordable Power released an analysis of electric complaints to the Public Utility Commission of Texas showing that the FY 2012 total was the lowest number of electric complaints in Texas in seven years.
October 8, 2012
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a recommended proposal for adoption to implement HB 2133, concerning the disgorgement of excess revenues resulting from a violation of PURA or administrative rule or protocol (40073).
October 5, 2012
The Public Utility Commission of Texas revoked the certificate of TexRep7, LLC d/b/a Saturn Power, LLC in a default order.
October 5, 2012
Infinite Electric, L.L.C. would pay $37,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve allegations that Infinite Electric was not in full compliance with 24 provisions of the Substantive Rules (40819).
October 4, 2012
Calpine Corporation announced this morning that it has agreed to purchase an 800 megawatt power plant in Central Texas owned by Bosque Power Co., LLC, for $432 million plus adjustments, or approximately $540 per kilowatt.
October 4, 2012
NRG Texas Power LLC has filed a Notification of Suspension of Operations with ERCOT for several of the units at its SR Bertron facility, namely, units G1, G2 and GT2.
October 3, 2012
Constellation Energy, through its StarTex Power subsidiary, has acquired a book of Texas electric customers from a retail electric provider which is exiting the market.
October 2, 2012
TXU Energy today released the latest in its “At Your Service” video series.
October 2, 2012
A Texas proposal for decision would conditionally grant Entergy Texas Inc.'s application to transfer operational control of its transmission assets to the Midwest ISO, subject to the provisions of a non-unanimous stipulation (NUS) among Entergy, Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and…
October 2, 2012
The Public Utility Commission of Texas adopted, without substantive changes to the provisions affecting retail electric providers, a proposal for adoption as filed by Staff for a revised energy efficiency rule, which includes a requirement that the Energy Efficiency Cost Recovery Factor (EECRF)…
October 1, 2012
The Brattle Group is to prepare for ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas an estimate of demand response achievable in the market and two "composite" detailed policy alternatives to address resource adequacy, one that highlights the major components of an energy-only option, and one that…
October 1, 2012
Texas retail provider Frontier Utilities announced that it is offering a new electricity plan called Pink Power that helps Texans support breast cancer research through their purchase of electric supply.
October 1, 2012
North American Power Seeks License in New States
September 28, 2012
The Public Utility Commission of Texas this morning elected not to act, at this time, on a proposal for adoption that would raise the ERCOT high system-wide offer cap to $9,000/MWh effective June 1, 2015, as commissioners believed that any change in the offer cap should be made in concert with…
September 27, 2012
Priority Power Management, LLC filed a white paper with the Public Utility Commission of Texas offering further proposals to address West Zone congestion in ERCOT.
