February 13, 2025
Texas PUC Adopts Staff Recommendations On Outage Tracker Rule As Final
The Texas PUC approved a final rule requiring TDUs to maintain online outage trackers (or maps)
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February 13, 2025
ERCOT CDR Indicates Inadequate Reserve Margins By 2027 Due To Forecasted Large Loads
ERCOT has posted its December 2024 CDR, which is the first to include, in the primary forecast, new forecasted loads reported by Transmission Service Providers for expected loads that do not have a signed interconnection agreement (mostly large loads) and which would otherwise not have been included…
February 13, 2025
Texas PUC Moves ADER Work To ERCOT
The Texas PUC has moved consideration of Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) to the ERCOT stakeholder process as a means of more quickly advancing ADERs, consistent with a previously reported Staff memo (story here)
February 13, 2025
ERCOT To Work On Developing Ideas For Residential Demand Response Program That Includes Financial Support From ERCOT
During today's Texas PUC open meeting, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas said that ERCOT this year will be working on ideas to develop a residential demand response program that would feature financial support from ERCOT
February 12, 2025
Texas Large Load Bill Would Require Minimum Transmission Charge For Customers Served Behind-the-Meter
A Texas bill (SB 6) filed today, authored by Sen. Phil King and Sen. Charles Schwertner, addresses several policies concerning large electricity loads, including minimum transmission charges and the availability of generation co-located with load to serve ERCOT during grid emergencies
February 11, 2025
Electrical Contractor Registers As Texas Electric Broker
Just-In Case Electric d/b/a Bluesun Services registered as a Texas retail electric broker
February 10, 2025
Retail Supplier Parent Signs As Official Supporter Of FIFA World Cup 26 Houston
NRG Energy Inc. announced a partnership with the FIFA World Cup 26 Houston Host Committee
February 10, 2025
Texas PUC Staff Would Decline To Require TDUs To Develop ESI ID Outage Database As Part Of Recommended Draft For Final Outage Tracker Rules
In a proposal for adoption on new rules requiring TDUs to maintain online outage trackers (or maps), Texas PUC Staff would decline to require TDUs to maintain an ESI ID outage database which would have allowed the REP of record to see if such ESI ID was included in an outage, and, if so, the TDU's…
February 7, 2025
Texas Retail Provider Receives Authority To Collect Customer Deposits
The Texas PUC granted Ammper Power, LLC an amendment to Ammper's option 1 retail electric provider certificate to allow Ammper to collect customer deposits
February 6, 2025
Texas PUC Staff Make Recommendation On ADER Pilot
Texas PUC Staff have recommended that consideration of Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) be moved to the ERCOT stakeholder process as a means of more quickly advancing ADERs
February 6, 2025
Oilfield Services Provider Registers As Texas Electric Broker
Tridder Energy Solutions LLC registered as a Texas retail electric broker
February 5, 2025
Retail Energy Broker Among Membership Of New Coalition Promoting Utility-Scale Microgrids In Texas
The Texas Reliability Coalition (TRC) announced its launch as, "an educational outreach initiative ... to engage the public and elected officials about ... Utility-Scale Microgrid (USM) technologies".
February 5, 2025
AI-Focused Start-up Energy Management Company Registers As Texas Electric Broker
Clear Current Technologies Inc registered as a Texas retail electric broker
February 3, 2025
ERCOT Provides Updated Target Date For CDR Release
ERCOT said in a market notice that February 10, 2025 is the "target" posting week for the 2024 final Report on Capacity, Demand and Reserves (CDR).
February 3, 2025
Energy Procurement Club Registers As Texas Broker
JT Consulting, LLC d/b/a EG Energy Insight registered as a Texas retail electric broker
February 3, 2025
Texas Bill Would Require Retail Providers To Report, To ERCOT, Customer Behavior By Zip Code In Response To Conservation Appeals
HB 2305 has been filed in the Texas legislature which would allow ERCOT to request information from LSEs concerning customer response to conservation appeals, and would require REPs to provide such information
February 3, 2025
Texas Bill Would Require PUC To Develop Ancillary Service Allowing Retail Providers To Aggregate Backup Generation To Provide Dispatchable Generation To ERCOT
HB 2303 has been filed in the Texas legislature which would require the Texas PUC to develop an ancillary service allowing retail electric providers to aggregate back-up generation to provide dispatchable generation to ERCOT during a power grid "outage".
February 3, 2025
CenterPoint-TDU Seeks Approval For 2026-28 System Resiliency Plan, Includes Utility-Scale Microgrid Pilot, Addresses Cost Recovery
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric has sought Texas PUC approval for a 2026-28 system resiliency plan
February 3, 2025
Regor Energy Corporation Files Texas Broker Registration
Regor Energy Corporation filed a registration as a Texas retail electric broker
January 30, 2025
Reliant Proposes Threshold That Would Trigger Review Of Sought Compensation To LSE-Linked Generators Due To ERCOT HDL Overrides, After Consumer Opposition To Payments
As ERCOT stakeholders further consider an NPRR which would expand payments to generators, linked to serving specific load, who are directed by ERCOT to reduce output under a High Dispatch Limit (HDL) override, Reliant proposed an annual cost threshold that would trigger an obligation for ERCOT to…
January 29, 2025
Oil & Gas, Bitcoin Mining Company Registers As Texas Electric Broker
Foster Energy Group registered as a Texas retail electric broker
January 29, 2025
CenterPoint-TDU Would Change How Disconnection Moratoriums Are Applied During Extreme Weather Events, Under Settlement
CenterPoint-TDU To Provide One-Time Bill Credit To Customers, Via REPs
A settlement among all of the major parties in CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric's electricity rate case at the Texas PUC would require CEHE to modify how it implements disconnection moratoriums during extreme weather events, while also including a one-time customer refund, to be provisioned…
January 28, 2025
Meta Signs Four Renewable Attribute Agreements For Texas Solar
Meta has signed four new Environmental Attribute Purchase Agreements (EAPAs) with Zelestra totaling 595 MWac, to be sourced from new solar power plants being developed in Texas
January 28, 2025
ERCOT Does Not Receive Any Cost Effective Proposals For Alternative To Using CenterPoint-TDU Mobile Generation As RMR Alternative, Cancels RFP
ERCOT is canceling the Request for Proposal for Must-Run Alternatives to the use of certain of CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric's mobile generation (Life Cycle Power Mobile Generation Solution) as an alternative to an RMR agreement for CPS Energy's Braunig Units 1 & 2
January 28, 2025
Data Center Developer Advisor, Led By Former Retail Supplier Senior Director, Registers As Texas Electric Broker
Belisari Energy LLC registered as a Texas retail electric broker