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February 19, 2021
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a new emergency item for the current legislative session, in asking the Legislature to, "mandate the winterization of Texas' power system," and for the Legislature, "to ensure the necessary funding for winterization."
February 19, 2021
ERCOT exited emergency conditions this morning, with EEA1 terminated at approximately 10:35 a.m. local time
February 19, 2021
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today issued Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs) to ERCOT and other power companies, regarding power outages, emergency plans, energy pricing, and more related to this week’s winter weather disaster.
February 19, 2021
ERCOT Reports Two Retail Providers Failed To Make Payment On A Settlement Invoice
February 18, 2021
ERCOT said in a Feb. 18 market notice that it has, "authorized the Transmission and Distribution Service Providers to restore all Load associated with the EEA that was declared on Monday, February 15, 2021."
February 18, 2021
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he would use, "the full scope of my Constitutional powers," to launch an investigation into, "ERCOT and related entities," and their "mishandling" of the extreme winter weather
February 18, 2021
TXU Energy -- the only volunteer Provider of Last Resort in Texas -- has filed with the Texas PUC an increase in the maximum number of customers TXU will accept as a volunteer POLR (aka VREP)
February 18, 2021
A principal of a retail electric provider told EnergyChoiceMatters.com that chatter in the market is that there are 22 possible defaults of load serving entities in ERCOT due to recent prolonged scarcity pricing. The principal requested not to be named due to the sensitive nature of the information
February 18, 2021
The Texas PUC on the evening of Feb. 17 ordered, "all TDUs in the ERCOT region to rotate customers that are properly subject to curtailment under EEA3 in a manner that no such customer is subjected to an outage of more than 12 hours."
February 17, 2021
Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered a prohibition on the export of natural gas from Texas by producers through Feb. 21
February 17, 2021
Vistra issued a news release today stating that of the company's nearly 19,000 megawatts of Texas capacity, only approximately 1,000 megawatts are currently not able to produce electricity; however, a larger, undisclosed amount of capacity -- while "able" to produce electricity -- was not currently…
February 17, 2021
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared the "reform" of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) an emergency item this legislative session.
February 16, 2021
The Texas PUC issued a further order on ERCOT pricing, and rescinded its prior directive that past ERCOT prices during the weather event be corrected to reflect scarcity pricing
February 16, 2021
Pulse Power, a retail electricity provider in Texas, announced on the morning of Feb. 15 that it is giving its customers an incentive to conserve electricity to help the marketplace this week.
February 16, 2021
Other REPs Delaying Enrollment Start Dates
Griddy, which charges a real-time wholesale pass-through price, on Feb. 13 began encouraging its Texas customers to switch to another retail electric provider due to price spikes which had already been seen at such time, and which have continued in the next few days
February 16, 2021
Just Energy Group Inc. announced today that it will miss its filing deadline of February 16, 2021 to file its unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2020 (the 'Interim Financial Statements'), its management discussion and…
February 15, 2021
ERCOT issued a market notice (M-C021521-01) the evening of Feb. 15 explaining how ERCOT intends to implement certain directives under the PUC's order reported in our earlier story below
February 15, 2021
Due to the sheer amount of offline generation, outages are not rotating as would be done normally, due to the prioritization of emergency and other critical need loads
February 11, 2021
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said today that it is expecting record electric use as a result of the extreme cold temperatures that have already reached much of the ERCOT region.
February 9, 2021
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Board of Directors today elected Sally A. Talberg to serve as their new Board Chair and Peter Cramton to serve as Vice-Chair.
February 9, 2021
Start-up Texas retail electric provider Rhythm announced that it is pledging to pay up to $1 million in early-termination-fee reimbursements to consumers who break up with their current electricity provider and switch to Rhythm's 100 percent renewable service.
February 5, 2021
Total announced that it is acquiring a development pipeline of 2.2 GW of solar projects, and 600 MW of battery storage assets, all located in Texas, from SunChase Power, and MAP RE/ES, a private energy investment firm.
February 5, 2021
Discloses Texas Customer Count
Griddy Energy LLC, known for its real-time wholesale pricing retail electricity product in Texas, has applied for a Pennsylvania electric supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas
February 3, 2021
Griddy Energy LLC, known for its real-time wholesale pricing retail electricity product in Texas, has applied for membership in PJM in the Other Supplier category
February 2, 2021
The California Independent System Operator (ISO) said that it has signed an implementation agreement with El Paso Electric (EPE) to join the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) in 2023
