September 18, 2018
Texas Staff Seek Ruling On Voluntary POLR Petition
Staff of the Texas PUC formally sought a ruling on Constellation NewEnergy, Inc.'s late-filed request to serve as a volunteer Provider of Last Resort (POLR, or VREP).
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September 17, 2018
TEAM: Focusing On Scarcity Pricing Frequency In Evaluating ERCOT Market Performance, Resource Adequacy Provides Incomplete Picture
In comments to the Texas PUC concerning ERCOT summer market performance, the Texas Energy Association for Marketers (TEAM), in responding to a specific question concerning whether scarcity pricing produced sufficient revenue to ensure resource adequacy, stated, "If the Commission decides that an…
September 17, 2018
ERCOT IMM: Preliminary Data Suggests Summer Pricing Reflected Specific Conditions, Not "Flaw" In Scarcity Pricing
In comments to the Texas PUC concerning summer ERCOT market outcomes, Potomac Economics, the Independent Market Monitor (IMM) for ERCOT, said that, "Early indications of market outcomes through August are that net revenues provided by the ERCOT real-time market in 2018 will not be at a level…
September 14, 2018
Texas PUC Gives Retail Providers Until 8 AM Monday (9/17) To Have Same Offers On Both English & Spanish Power To Choose Sites, Or Offers Will Be Pulled
34 REPs Active On One Site Not Listing Offers On Other Version Chair Walker: "Not Happy"
Note: This story was first published the morning of Sept. 14 with an alert to our email subscribers
September 12, 2018
Retail Provider Renews Wholesale Supply Agreement, Will Support Growth
AP Holdings, LLC ("APG&E") recently renewed its Energy Supply Agreement with EDF Trading North America, LLC for a term of four years.
September 12, 2018
Texas Co-op Says It Does Not Want To Transfer Existing Customers Away From AEP Texas (And Their REPs) For Area, Currently Served By AEP Texas, That PUCT Has Ruled Only Co-Op Is Currently Authorized To Serve
Rio Grande Electric Cooperative (RGEC), Inc. has stated in response to an RFI that it does not wish to transfer existing customers in the Uvalde Estate Subdivision who are currently served by AEP Texas, and the customers' selected REP, but for which the Texas PUC has ruled that AEP Texas does not…
September 10, 2018
TNMP Sets Date For 2018 Retail Electric Provider Meeting
Texas-New Mexico Power will hold its 2018 Retail Electric Provider meeting on October 9 (reception) and October 10 (meeting) in League City, Texas
September 10, 2018
Settlement To Lower Base Distribution Rates Charged To Texas Retail Electric Providers At Oncor, Proposed Amounts Filed
Oncor has filed an unopposed stipulation with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to reflect reduced federal tax rates, and associated changes, in its base distribution rates applicable to retail electric providers, to be effective October 8, 2018
September 10, 2018
Texas Staff Proposes Questions For Stakeholders On TDUs' Use Of Storage, Non-Traditional Tech. For Delivery Service
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have presented for Commission consideration a list of questions for stakeholder comment in Project No. 48023: Rulemaking to Address the Use of Non-Traditional Technologies in Electric Delivery Service
September 7, 2018
ERCOT Expects Sufficient Generation For Fall And Winter
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) anticipates there will be sufficient installed generating capacity available to serve system-wide forecasted peak demand this fall and winter.
September 7, 2018
Electricity Ratings Receives Texas Aggregator Certificate
The Public Utility Commission of Texas granted Electricity Ratings, LLC an electric aggregator certificate to serve residential and commercial customers.
September 6, 2018
Ambit Energy Announces Product Expansion, New Markets
Rolls Out New App, Also Skills For Alexa, For Texas Customers
Ambit Energy announced that it will expand its guaranteed savings plan to customers in Maine, New Hampshire and Ohio this fall
September 5, 2018
CenterPoint-TDU Sets Date For Competitive Retailer Workshop
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric issued a Save The Date for its 2018 Competitive Retailer workshop, to be held November 14, 2018 in Galveston
September 5, 2018
Start-up Seeks Texas Retail Electric Provider Certificate
Start-up Primo Power LLC applied for an Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate to serve customers at Oncor, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, AEP Texas North, AEP Texas Central, and Texas-New Mexico Power
September 4, 2018
Texas REP Seeks Authority To Collect Deposits
Freepoint Energy Solutions LLC applied for an amendment to its Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate to include authority to collect deposits or advance payments from customers.
August 31, 2018
Texas PUC Approves Initial DCRF Rates Applicable To REPs At Oncor, Updated Rates As CenterPoint-TDU
The Texas PUC has approved an initial Distribution Cost Recovery Factor rider at Oncor, and updates to the DCRF at CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, adopting unopposed stipulations in both cases
August 31, 2018
Texas PUC Approves Territory-Specific Rates For AEP DCRF Charges To REPs
The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved territory-specific Distribution Cost Recovery Factors, charged to retail electric providers, at AEP Texas, after discussing language in PURA regarding the application of "system-wide" DCRF rates
August 31, 2018
Start-up Texas Retail Provider Seeks REP Certificate, Led By Texas Retail Market Vet
Seeks To Use Trade Names "Energy to Go"; "New Power Texas"
Start-up Pulse Power, LLC has applied for an Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate.
August 30, 2018
Texas PUC Chair: Settlement's Use Of Territory-Specific (Not System-wide) Rates In AEP DCRF (Charged To REPs) Contradicts PURA
In a memo in advance of today's open meeting, Texas PUC Chairman DeAnn Walker said that an unopposed settlement that would establish new Distribution Cost Recovery Factors (DCRF) at AEP Texas, which would set rates on a territory-specific basis (unique rates for Central, North divisions), is…
August 30, 2018
Large Northeast Retail Provider Seeks Texas REP Certificate
Town Square Energy, LLC, a unit of Genie Retail Energy, has applied for an Option 1 Texas REP certificate
August 30, 2018
Start-up Texas Retail Provider Seeks License, Will Offer "Subscription" Service, Wholesale Pass-Through
Said To Link IoT Devices To Prices
Start-up Evolve Energy applied for an Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate
August 29, 2018
Texas PUC Staff Files Preliminary List Of REPs Eligible To Be Designated As Non-Volunteer POLRs
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas (Commission) have filed a preliminary list of retail electric providers eligible to be designated as non-volunteer providers of last resort (Large Service Providers, LSPs), and a list of volunteer POLRs (VREPs), for the 2019-2020 term
August 28, 2018
AEP Texas Schedules Annual REP Workshop
AEP Texas Competitive Retailer Relations announced that its 2018 competitive retailer (CR) Social and Workshop will be held Tuesday, October 16th (Social) and Wednesday, October 17th (Workshop), 2018 in Corpus Christi, Texas
August 27, 2018
AEP Texas Merger Savings Credit To REPs Takes Effect On Interim Basis
As previously reported , per the order in Docket No. 46050, AEP Texas filed for a merger savings credit Monday, February 26, 2018 in PUCT Docket No. 48110. In its application, AEP Texas proposed to refund the savings stemming from lower debt issuance costs.
August 24, 2018
Duty Of Texas Retail Providers To Notify Customers Of TDU Rate Class Reassignment May Become Issue In Another Complaint Case
The duty, if any, of Texas retail electric providers to inform customers of a change in the customer's assignment to a specific TDU rate class, and associated changes in rates due to such change, may be addressed in another pending customer complaint before the Texas PUC