June 20, 2018
Jeffrey V. Hoster d/b/a KWH Consulting Services, Ltd, KWH Energy Solutions, 3:23 Consulting, LP, and JVHKMH1233, LLC, applied for a Texas electric aggregator certificate to pool residential, commercial, and industrial customers
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June 19, 2018
Adoption Of Proposal Would Require Second Phase To Determine How To Transition Customers To Co-op Service, Cease Taking Service From REP
A Texas ALJ has issued a proposal for decision which would determine that AEP Texas lacks authority to serve certain customers located in the Uvalde Estate Subdivision, a residential subdivision in Uvalde County, Texas, which is the subject of a service area dispute filed by Rio Grande Electric…
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June 18, 2018
The Public Utility Commission of Texas granted Brasovan Group LLC an electric aggregator certificate, to pool all customer classes. Trade names include Brasovan Energy Solutions LLC, Electricity EZ, and EZ Electricity
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June 18, 2018
Quest Distributors LLC d/b/a My Quest Energy filed with the Texas PUC a REP certificate amendment application to provide an updated list of Officers and Directors and to request authorization to collect customer deposits
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June 15, 2018
Oncor informed retail electric providers in a market notice that, "Oncor will begin applying the power factor adjustment to invoices for all ESI IDs greater than 700 kW in the former Sharyland service territory during the August 2018 billing cycle."
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June 14, 2018
Parties have filed an unopposed settlement to establish Oncor's first Distribution Cost Recovery Factor (DCRF), a charge applicable to retail electric providers taking delivery service
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June 13, 2018
Keechi Wind LLC would pay $10,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve alleged violations of Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Nodal Protocols § 3.21, relating to declarations of summer and winter weather preparedness
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June 12, 2018
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Shelly Botkin to the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) for a term set to expire on September 1, 2019.
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June 12, 2018
NRG Energy, Inc. and Cypress Creek Renewables announced today a joint project where Cypress Creek will develop and operate 25 megawatts of solar projects for NRG to support Texas commercial and industrial customers which the companies said, "will be the foundation of a new type of simplified…
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June 11, 2018
ERCOT received a Notification of Suspension of Operations (NSO) for the following Generation Resources:
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June 6, 2018
Various parties have filed a settlement with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to update the Distribution Cost Recovery Factors (Rider DCRF) for AEP Texas's Central and North divisions, effective September 1, 2018.
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June 6, 2018
ERCOT in a recent market notice stated that stakeholders and Public Utility Commission of Texas (Commission) Staff have requested that ERCOT create and maintain a list of Competitive Retailer (CR) contact information (Acquisition Transfer Contact List) on ERCOT’s public website that would include…
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June 4, 2018
The Texas PUC in a final order has granted an appeal filed by AEP Texas concerning an order from the City of McAllen (City) which, as a city with original jurisdiction, had granted a complaint from L&F Distributors LTD, a customer which had argued that AEP Texas had incorrectly placed one of its…
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June 4, 2018
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have recommended that the application of GridPlus Texas Inc. for an Option 1 retail electric provider certificate be approved.
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June 1, 2018
Breeze Energy, which as previously reported was subject to an involuntary mass transition and drop of its 9,800 Texas customers to POLRs, is encouraging its former customers to sign up with 4Change Energy
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May 31, 2018
Texas Retail Provider Receives Authority To Use Trade Name Mio Electric
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May 31, 2018
Notes "Slight" Increase In Competitive Retail Customer Bills Of Other ERCOT LSEs From Proposal
Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative, Inc. and Lone Star Transmission, LLC have filed a petition at the Texas PUC for: (1) approval to transfer and integrate Rayburn's load and related transmission assets currently in the Eastern Interconnection (Southwest Power Pool) to the Electric Reliability…
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May 31, 2018
Would Eliminate AMS Surcharge, And Significantly Reduce Most Discretionary Fees (Add New Inadvertent Gain Fee) Seeks To Move Residential Class To Cost Of Service, Reduce Inter-class Subsidies
Would Increase Flat Base Rate Monthly Fees For Residential Service By 60%, Also Increase Volumetric Charge
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May 30, 2018
Note: This story was first published the evening of May 30 with an alert to our email subscribers
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May 30, 2018
Beam, LP applied for a Texas electric aggregator certificate
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May 29, 2018
Mozart Wind LLC would pay $10,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve Mozart's alleged violations of Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Nodal Protocols § 3.21, relating to declarations of summer and winter weather preparedness, and 16 Tex.…
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May 29, 2018
Includes New Process For Third Party Providers To Access Smart Meter Texas Customer Data
The Public Utility Commission of Texas at its May 25 meeting formally voted to adopt a written order on new business requirements for Smart Meter Texas (SMT) and directed that an order be prepared approving such changes
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May 29, 2018
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed an updated estimate of installed generation capacity in ERCOT.
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May 25, 2018
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed testimony proposing a marginal reduction, versus the new rates proposed by CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC (CEHE), to the proposed new September 1, 2018 Distribution Cost Recovery Factors (Rider DCRF) at CEHE
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May 25, 2018
AEP Texas North Division reported that its fund for the program under which Texas retail electric providers were reimbursed for providing no-cost programmable communicating thermostats (PCT) and in-home displays (IHD) to eligible low-income customers still has a positive balance as of April 30, 2018
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